 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1847 - 636 pages
...colors too glaring. The example, too, of the wealthy and reputedly wise confirmed the popular delusion. Nothing was talked of, in every social circle, but...life to be led on the blissful banks of the Scioto. At length, Brissot published his travels," and completed the flattering delusion : buyers became numerous... | |
 | Henry Howe - Ohio - 1849 - 646 pages
...colors too glaring. The example, too, of the wealthy and reputedly wise confirmed the popular delusion. Nothing was talked of, in every social circle, but...life to be led on the blissful banks of the Scioto. At length, Brissot published his travels,* and completed the flattering delusion: buyers became numerous... | |
 | Henry Howe - History - 1851 - 636 pages
...colors too glaring. The example, too, of the wealthy and reputedly wise confirmed the popular delusion. Nothing was talked of, in every social circle, but...life to be led on the blissful banks of the Scioto. At length, Brissot published his travels,* and completed the flattering delusion : buyers became numerous... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Northwest, Old - 1875 - 958 pages
...colors too glaring. The example, too, of the wealthy and reputedly wise confirmed the popular delusion. Nothing was talked of, in every social circle, but...wilderness, the free and happy life to be led on the beautiful banks of the Scioto." Now and then some remonstrance was uttered. Occasionally some one would... | |
 | Charles Burr Todd - 1886 - 316 pages
...colors too glaring. The example, too, of the wealthy and reputedly wise confirmed the popular delusion. Nothing was talked of in every social circle but the...wilderness, the free and happy life to be led on the banks of the Scioto. At length Brissot * published his ' Travels ' and completed the flattering delusion;... | |
 | Manasseh Cutler - Ohio - 1888 - 114 pages
...too," says Volney in his view, " of the wealthy and reputedly wise confirmed the popular delusion ; nothing was talked of in every social circle but the...life to be led on the blissful banks of the Scioto. At length Brissot published his travels and completed the flattering delusion. Buyers became numerous... | |
 | Daniel Joseph Ryan - Ohio - 1888 - 226 pages
...created a perfect rage among the Parisians. Volney, a celebrated French writer of that period, says : " Nothing was talked of in every social circle but the...life to be led on the blissful banks of the Scioto." About five hundred Frenchmen, principally from Paris and Lyons, and mostly artisans, totally unfit... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1896 - 1000 pages
...Nothing was talked of in every social circle," says Volney, with of course some degree of exaggeration, "but the paradise that was opened for Frenchmen in...life to be led on the blissful banks of the Scioto." And they came, saw, suffered. It was about the time that Barlow was persuading the Frenchmen to come... | |
 | Ohio - 1901 - 526 pages
...capital. Volney, the celebrated French writer of that period, said "Nothing was talked of in every circle but the paradise that was opened for Frenchmen...life to be led on the blissful banks of the Scioto." Curious coincidence of history, the denizens of storm-ridden Paris looking to the forest fastnesses... | |
 | Emilius Oviatt Randall, Daniel Joseph Ryan - Ohio - 1912 - 758 pages
...talked of in every circle but the paradise that was opened for Frenchmen in the western wilderness, and the free and happy life to be led on the blissful banks of the Scioto. " The offices of the Scioto Company in Paris were crowded by eager purchasers, mostly artisans of skilled... | |
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Nothing was talked of, in every social circle, but the paradise that was opened for Frenchmen in the western wilderness ; the free and happy life to be led on the blissful banks of the Scioto. 
