Francis Parkman citáty

Francis Parkman bol americký historik, známy pre svoje dielo o Severnej Amerike v období kolonializmu. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. september 1823 – 8. november 1893
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Francis Parkman: Citáty v angličtine

“The Revolution began at the top,—in the world of fashion, birth, and intellect,—and propagated itself downwards.”

Zdroj: Montcalm and Wolfe http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14517/14517-8.txt (1884), Ch. 1

“France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.”

Zdroj: Montcalm and Wolfe http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14517/14517-8.txt (1884), Ch. 1

“The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?”

Introduction
Montcalm and Wolfe http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14517/14517-8.txt (1884)

“Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.”

Zdroj: Montcalm and Wolfe http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14517/14517-8.txt (1884), Ch. 1 The Combatants