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 halaman |
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... enemies , gross in their pleasures , vicious through ignorance : but , " adds he , " their simplicity and penury give them one advantage over us , that they remain unacquainted with those refinements of vice which have been introduced ...
... enemies , gross in their pleasures , vicious through ignorance : but , " adds he , " their simplicity and penury give them one advantage over us , that they remain unacquainted with those refinements of vice which have been introduced ...
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... enemy . They speak with much judg- ment and reason , and when they have any im- portant enterprise to undertake , the chief is atten- tively listened to for two or three hours together , and he is answered , point to point , as the ...
... enemy . They speak with much judg- ment and reason , and when they have any im- portant enterprise to undertake , the chief is atten- tively listened to for two or three hours together , and he is answered , point to point , as the ...
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... enemy ; sangui- nary in their treatment of prisoners ; and in their wars sparing neither age nor sex . On the other hand , he found them temperate in their mode of living , patient of hunger and fatigue , sociable and humane to those ...
... enemy ; sangui- nary in their treatment of prisoners ; and in their wars sparing neither age nor sex . On the other hand , he found them temperate in their mode of living , patient of hunger and fatigue , sociable and humane to those ...
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... enemies . Charlevoix has given an account of the cruelties practised upon an Iroquois prisoner , taken during the war ; and as this Indian was the first adult person belonging to that celebrated confederacy who had received the rite of ...
... enemies . Charlevoix has given an account of the cruelties practised upon an Iroquois prisoner , taken during the war ; and as this Indian was the first adult person belonging to that celebrated confederacy who had received the rite of ...
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... enemy , as the Christian is taught to forgive him . But , were the American Indians to be branded by the French , and other writers , as wild beasts , blood - hounds , cannibals , heathen demons , & c . , & c . , for adhering to customs ...
... enemy , as the Christian is taught to forgive him . But , were the American Indians to be branded by the French , and other writers , as wild beasts , blood - hounds , cannibals , heathen demons , & c . , & c . , for adhering to customs ...
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Halaman 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 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.
Halaman 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...
Halaman 115 - I never begged any thing of the state, or any, and it is my want of abilitie and her exceeding desert, your birth...