"The last of the Mohicans" (1830) :
a book full of history
"But I know that your safety, and that of Cora,
is far dearer to me than could be any orchestra of Handel's music" (p.32).
"But it was long before the English came into the country.
We took wives who bore us children; we worshipped the Great Spirit.
My tribe is the grandfather of nations, but I am an unmixed man.
The blood of chiefs is in my veins, where it must stay for ever.
The Dutch landed, and gave my people the fire-water" (p.39).
"The less zealous English thought they conferred a sufficient honour on its unsullied fountains,
when they bestowed the name of their reigning prince,
the second of the House of Hannover" (p.16).
"It was in this scene of strife and bloodshed, that the incidents
we schall attempt to relate occurred,
during the third year of the war
which England and France las waged, for the possession of a country,
that neither was destined to retain" (p.17)
"The daughters of the commandant,
I learn, have passed into the fort,
since it was invested ?
We have a wise ordinance
in our Salique Laws,
which says,
the crown of France shall never degrade
the lance to the distaff.
I trust, monsieur, you come authorized
to treat for the surrender of the place ?" (p.175).
"The beauty and manliness of warfare has been much deformed,
Major Heyward, by the arts of your Monsieur Vauban" (p.182)
"Ay, sir, that is a curse entailed
on Scotland,
by her unnatural Union
with a foreign and trading people" (p.180).
"The pale-faces have driven the red-skins
from their hunting grounds.
The Huron chief was tied up
before all the pale-faced warriors,
and
whipped like a dog" (p.117)