Historical Notes Respecting the Indians of North America: With Remarks on the Attempts Made to Convert and Civilize Them ...A. Constable and Company, Edinburgh, 1825 - 408 páginas |
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... matron , made an impression on my mind greatly in favour of the people to whom she belonged ; and tended not a little to counteract the prejudices I had hitherto entertained , in common with 16 Сп . І. HISTORICAL NOTES RESPECTING.
... matron , made an impression on my mind greatly in favour of the people to whom she belonged ; and tended not a little to counteract the prejudices I had hitherto entertained , in common with 16 Сп . І. HISTORICAL NOTES RESPECTING.
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... favour- able opinion I had just imbibed , and convinced me that , notwithstanding this apparent suspension of her grief , some particles of that reluctance to be separated from a beloved relation , which is implanted either by nature or ...
... favour- able opinion I had just imbibed , and convinced me that , notwithstanding this apparent suspension of her grief , some particles of that reluctance to be separated from a beloved relation , which is implanted either by nature or ...
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... favour of the In- dian . The occurrence took place soon after the commencement of the colony of Pennsylvania , and in a remote and unsettled part of it- " Abraham and Joseph Chapman , when boys nine or ten years old , going out one ...
... favour of the In- dian . The occurrence took place soon after the commencement of the colony of Pennsylvania , and in a remote and unsettled part of it- " Abraham and Joseph Chapman , when boys nine or ten years old , going out one ...
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... favour to every reader in delivering him from a farther continuance of this account of French cruelty . ' " * The account thus given by Colden was probably taken from the more detailed narrative of the Baron de la Hontan . But it should ...
... favour to every reader in delivering him from a farther continuance of this account of French cruelty . ' " * The account thus given by Colden was probably taken from the more detailed narrative of the Baron de la Hontan . But it should ...
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... favours which she has obtained for them from Heaven . I could detail to you a great number of these wonderful cures , attested by persons whose honour and judgment cannot be suspected ; but I shall content myself by giving you the testi ...
... favours which she has obtained for them from Heaven . I could detail to you a great number of these wonderful cures , attested by persons whose honour and judgment cannot be suspected ; but I shall content myself by giving you the testi ...
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Página 347 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 321 - We have had some experience of it ; several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences ; but, when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, nor kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors ; they were totally...
Página 322 - We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it: and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.
Página 139 - Justice gives sentence many times On one man for another's crimes. Our brethren of New England use Choice malefactors to excuse, And hang the guiltless in their stead, • Of whom the churches have less need...
Página 240 - ... to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profession, is the principal end of this plantation.
Página 346 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed and said, " Logan is the friend of the white men.
Página 106 - Having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held, but the conclusion was, two great stones were brought before Powhatan...
Página 346 - He accordingly signalized himself in the war which ensued. In the autumn of the same year a decisive battle was fought at the mouth of the Great Kanhaway, between the collected forces of the Shawanese, Mingoes, and Delawares, and a detachment of the Virginia Militia.
Página 321 - But you, who are wise, must know that different nations have different conceptions of things ; and you will 65 therefore not take it amiss if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges...
Página 115 - I never begged any thing of the state, or any, and it is my want of abilitie and her exceeding desert, your birth...