America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world … - Francis Parkman

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I don’t know how to explain it. ” “Try words. If that doesn’t work, we’ll move on to interpretive dance.

Francis Parkman

America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold.

Adventure, Ancient, Gold, Land, Sea, Wonder

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The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest, and they chafed in impatience and disgust. The religious element in the colony-unlike the former Huguenot emigration to Brazil--was evidently subordinate. The adventurers thought more of their fortunes than of their faith.

Adventurers, Expectations, Fortunes, Religious, Volunteer

Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

Air, Breath, Clouds, Light, Stirred, Wore

When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry.

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Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

Art, Conventionality, Men, Original, Rude, Whole

Spanish civilization crushed the Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization embraced and cherished him.

Cherished, Civilization, Crushed, Neglected, Spanish

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