...the check of shame, many families exhihit the most hideous parts of our society", and the pioneers are "a kind of forlorn hope, preceding by ten or twelve years the more respectable army of veterans which came after them".11 In his second volume Professor Parrington...

...by the efficacy of a few moral rules. There, remote from the power of example, and check of shame, _ many families exhibit the most hideous parts of our...forlorn hope, preceding by ten or twelve years the more respectable army of veterans which come after them. In that space, prosperity will polish some,...

...hideous parts of our society. They are a kind of forlorn hope, preceding by ten or twelve years the more respectable army of veterans which come after them....that space, prosperity will polish some, vice and law will drive off the rest, who uniting with others like themselves will recede still farther; making...

...uncertain industry, which often fails when not sanctified by the efficacy of a few moral rules. There, remote from the power of example and check of shame, many families exhibit the most hideous part of our society" (47). In the early letters, Crevecoeur was able to deal with the prospect with...

...society, where men "appear to be no better than carnivorous animals of a superior rank .... There, remote from the power of example and check of shame, many families exhibit the most hideous part of our society." In time that "hitherto barbarous country" would be "purged" by the next wave...

...salutary familial or personal independence when he observed that when men are unnaturally independent and "remote from the power of example and check of shame,...families exhibit the most hideous parts of our society," for man, he continued, "cannot live in solitude, he must belong to some community bound by some ties,...

...of wild animals when they can catch them, and when they are not able they subsist on grain. There, remote from the power of example and check of shame,...families exhibit the most hideous parts of our society [meaning, civilization]." ST. JOHN DE CREAECCEUR. " Eating wild meat, whatever you may think, tends...

..."There men appear to be no better than carnivorous animals of a superiour rank," he writes. "There, remote from the power of example and check of shame,...families exhibit the most hideous parts of our society." People might have moved to wilderness regions because of a number of personal problems or opportunities...

...in which they grow." The "great woods" and the frontier contain the most degenerate class: "there, remote from the power of example, and check of shame,...many families exhibit the most hideous parts of our society."38 This classification of people according to the land they live on continued to resonate...

...society, where men "appear to be no better than carnivorous animals of a superior rank. . . . There remote from the power of example, and check of shame,...families exhibit the most hideous parts of our society." In time that "hitherto barbarous country" would be "purged" by the next wave of decent settlers and...