The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and … - Francis Parkman

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When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

Francis Parkman

The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle.

Conqueror, Cuzco, Dream, Give, Ocean, Pyramids

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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.

Burning, Hunting, Land, Sea, Steps

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