I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state. Western Characters - Página 38de John Ludlum McConnel - 1853 - 378 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - 388 páginas
...have of very superior lustre. I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more...a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state. And, as a • XVIII. 14$ f Linn. Syft.... | |
| DeWitt Clinton - 1812 - 90 páginas
...Jefferson, when he says, " I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes, and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more...a single passage superior to the speech of Logan." But let it be remembered that Logan was a Mingo chief, the second son of Shikellemus, a celebrated... | |
| New-York Historical Society - 1814 - 558 páginas
...Jefferson, when he says, "I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more...a single passage superior to the speech of Logan." But let it be remembered that Logan was a Mingo chief, the second son of Shikellemus, a celebrated... | |
| W. C. Harvey - 1818 - 350 páginas
...America, vol. ip 133, 134. " We may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, (if Europe has furnished more...a single passage superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when Governor of the state of Virginia. The story is as follows ; of... | |
| Reuben Percy - 1823 - 442 páginas
...his " Notes on Virginia," " I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more...a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to lord Dunmore, when governor of Virginia." Red Jacket, another Indian, appeared, some... | |
| James Buchanan - 1824 - 164 páginas
...however, of very superior lustre. I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, (if Europe has furnished more...a single passage superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo Chief, to Lord Dunmore, when Governor of this state;* and as a testimony of their talents in... | |
| James Buchanan - 1824 - 350 páginas
...however, of very superior lustre. I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, (if Europe has furnished more...a single passage superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo Chief, to Lord Dunmore, when Governor of this state;* and as a testimony of their talents in... | |
| John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 páginas
...have of very superior lustre. I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and CicSro, and of any more eminent orator, — if Europe has furnished more...a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to lord Dunmore, when governor of Virginia. And, as a testimony of their talents in... | |
| Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - 1832 - 344 páginas
...address, Mr. Jefferson says, " I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more...a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan" ; and an American statesman and scholar, scarcely less illustrious than the author of this noble eulogium,... | |
| Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - 1832 - 344 páginas
...address, Mr. Jefferson says, " I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more...a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan" ; and an American statesman and scholar, scarcely less illustrious than the author of this noble eulogium,... | |
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