| 1841 - 80 páginas
...contrary, their bad actions predominate, the stone canoe sinks, and leaves them up to their chins in the water to behold and regret the reward enjoyed by the...blissful island from which they are excluded for ever.§ " On the other hand the Arrowauks, or natives of Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto, Rico, Jamaica, and Trinidad,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson Farnham - 1843 - 336 páginas
...in an eternal enjoyment of sensual pleasure and carnal gratification. But if there be bad actions to weigh down the balance, the stone canoe sinks at once,...blissful island from which they are excluded for ever." It would be interesting, in closing this notice of the Great Prairie wilderness, to give an account... | |
| Thomas Jefferson Farnham - 1843 - 220 páginas
...down the balance, the stone canoe sinks at once, and leaves them up to their chins in water, to bebuld and regret the reward enjoyed by the good, and eternally struggling, but with unavailing endeavors, to reach the blissful island from which they are excluded fur. ever." It would be interesting... | |
| 1846 - 460 páginas
...delightful and eternal abode. But if, on the contrary, their bad actions predominate, the stone canoe sinks and leaves them up to their chins in water, to behold...good, and eternally struggling, but with unavailing endeavors, to reach the blissful island from which they are excluded forever." On the other hand, tribes... | |
| New-York Historical Society - 1821 - 422 páginas
...contrary, their bad actions predominate, " the stone canoe sinks, and leaves them up to their chins in the water, to behold and regret the reward enjoyed by...island, from which they are excluded for ever."§ * Charlevoix, Journal Hist. p. 376-7. This ceremony is called the feast of the dead, or of souls, and... | |
| Ellen Russell Emerson - 1884 - 756 páginas
...weigh down the balance, the stone canoe sinks at once, and leaves them with their heads only above water, to behold and regret the reward enjoyed by...good, and eternally struggling, but with unavailing endeavors, to reach the blissful island from which they are excluded. By other tribes the way of the... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam - 1885 - 450 páginas
...actions weigh down the balance, the stone canoe sinks at once, aud leaves them up to their chins in the water, to behold and regret the reward enjoyed by...blissful island, from which they are excluded for ever." While an inmate of Fort Chipewyan, Mackenzie was ever haunted by projects of discovery. He was a born... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam - 1885 - 422 páginas
...weigh down the balance, the stone canoe •sinks at once, and leaves them up to their chins in the water, to behold and regret the reward enjoyed by...good, and eternally struggling, but with unavailing endeavour's, to reach the blissful island, from which they are excluded for ever." While an inmate... | |
| Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - 1895 - 818 páginas
...actions weigh down the balance, the stone canoe sinks at once, and leaves them up to their chins in the water, to behold and regret the reward enjoyed by...the blissful island, from which they are excluded forever." Our author, in another place, thus refers to the dances of the Slaves and Dogribs : " During... | |
| Sir Alexander Mackenzie - 1903 - 376 páginas
...actions weigh down the balance, the stone canoe sinks at once, and leaves them up to their chins in the water, to behold and regret the reward enjoyed by...blissful island, from which they are excluded for ever. They have some faint notions of the transmigration of the soul ; so that if a child be bom with teeth,... | |
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