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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... look in vain for any dawning of moral improve- ment , or the slightest trace of benefit obtained among those remote and uncivilized nations to which the missions extended . Throughout the barbarous history little is to be discerned but ...
... look in vain for any dawning of moral improve- ment , or the slightest trace of benefit obtained among those remote and uncivilized nations to which the missions extended . Throughout the barbarous history little is to be discerned but ...
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... look upon it as incontestable that we are unable of ourselves to destroy the Iroquois ; be- sides , why should we attempt to destroy a people who leave us at rest ? Such , however , is the pleasure of certain turbulent spirits here ...
... look upon it as incontestable that we are unable of ourselves to destroy the Iroquois ; be- sides , why should we attempt to destroy a people who leave us at rest ? Such , however , is the pleasure of certain turbulent spirits here ...
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... look upon it as an excess of mad- ness , and laugh at us for punishing that as a crime which is effected neither under the influ- ence of reason nor will . The better to calm their fury , they were promised that , at my return , I ...
... look upon it as an excess of mad- ness , and laugh at us for punishing that as a crime which is effected neither under the influ- ence of reason nor will . The better to calm their fury , they were promised that , at my return , I ...
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... look for his moon . " " After having thus , for seven years , conducted him- self with activity and zeal in support of the French , and with marked treachery towards his own nation ; and having escaped that fate which , according to ...
... look for his moon . " " After having thus , for seven years , conducted him- self with activity and zeal in support of the French , and with marked treachery towards his own nation ; and having escaped that fate which , according to ...
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... look upon these white strangers in no other light than as hostile and treacherous invaders of their soil . Captain Newport returned almost immediately to England , leaving in Virginia at the settlement which they named Jamestown - about ...
... look upon these white strangers in no other light than as hostile and treacherous invaders of their soil . Captain Newport returned almost immediately to England , leaving in Virginia at the settlement which they named Jamestown - about ...
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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...