 | Benjamin Drake - 1841 - 252 páginas
...intimately, who has often met him in the council and on the field of battle, we may venture to pronounce him, one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally...revolutions, and overturn the established order of things ; and, who, but for the power of the United States, would, perhaps, have been the founder of an empire... | |
 | 1844 - 778 páginas
...president - £> ,\ *TT f . -, r* . . r m. but without fear ; and of him General Harrison said, " He was one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally...revolutions and overturn the established order of things, and that, if it had not been for the power and vicinity of the United States, he would, perhaps, have... | |
 | James Parton - 1860 - 810 páginas
...circumstances of life, as the greatest men always are, he could employ more than the eloquence of Logan when descanting upon the Indian's wrongs and the white...him as " one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up^occasionally to produce revolutions, and overturn the established order of things. If it were not... | |
 | 1906 - 562 páginas
...followers of Tecumseh pay him are really astonishing and more than any other circumstance bespeak him one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the existing order of things. If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would be the founder... | |
 | James Mooney - 1896 - 630 páginas
...with I u ^r fine features, and altogether a daring, hold-looking fellow. — ('aptain Ftoyd, 1H10. One of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the e8tahli»lied order of things. — Governor Harrison. EXPLANATION OF FIGURE 58 This portrait is a copy... | |
 | Arthur St. Clair Colyar - 1904 - 456 páginas
...practice of torturing prisoners. General Harrison, who finally conquered him, says of him: "He was one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the order of things. If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would, perhaps, be the founder... | |
 | 1906 - 538 páginas
...followers of Tecumseh pay him are really astonishing and more than any other circumstance bespeak him one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the existing order of things. If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would be the founder... | |
 | Mary Agnes Burton - 1916 - 450 páginas
...followers of Tecumseh pay to him is really astonishing, and more than any other circumstance bespeaks him one of those uncommon geniuses, which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and over210 BURTON HISTORICAL COLLECTION turn the established order of things. If it were not for the vicinity... | |
 | william christie macleod - 1928 - 586 páginas
...of De Villiers du Terrage. CHAPTER XXVIII TECUMSEH, THE METEOR, AND HIS BACKGROUND — 1774-1814 " One of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally...revolutions and overturn the established order of things. . . . No difficulties deter him." — General Harrison's Characterization of Tecwnseh, 1811. THE REVOLUTIONARY... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs - 1966 - 47 páginas
...recognized a formidable adversary in Tecumseh, whom he described in a letter to the Secretary of War as "one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions." If the whites were any weaker, Harrison went on to say, Tecumseh might succeed in setting up a great... | |
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Harrison, who was long his patient and forbearing adviser, and then his conqueror, speaks of him as " one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions, and overturn the established order of things. If it were not for... 
