Historical Notes Respecting the Indians of North America: With Remarks on the Attempts Made to Convert and Civilize ThemA. Constable and Company, 1825 - 408 oldal |
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... Rivers , in New France , makes a similar obser- vation . " In general all the Indians possess a sound judgment ; and it is seldom that you find among them any who have that stupid and heavy intellect which we perceive among some of our ...
... Rivers , in New France , makes a similar obser- vation . " In general all the Indians possess a sound judgment ; and it is seldom that you find among them any who have that stupid and heavy intellect which we perceive among some of our ...
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... river St. Lawrence . " As I took great pains to become thoroughly acquainted with their manners , maxims , and reli- Relation de la Nouvelle France , 1645 , par le Père Jerome Lallemant , p . 153 . + Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses ...
... river St. Lawrence . " As I took great pains to become thoroughly acquainted with their manners , maxims , and reli- Relation de la Nouvelle France , 1645 , par le Père Jerome Lallemant , p . 153 . + Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses ...
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... Rivers , in Canada , saying , While we have beaver and furs , he who prayed was with us ; he instructed our children , and taught them to pray ; he was inseparable from us , and sometimes honoured us at our feasts ; but Charlevoix ...
... Rivers , in Canada , saying , While we have beaver and furs , he who prayed was with us ; he instructed our children , and taught them to pray ; he was inseparable from us , and sometimes honoured us at our feasts ; but Charlevoix ...
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... rivers which run into the Missi- sippi from the east . Numbers also who escaped from death were cruelly maimed and mutilated ; others entirely disappeared , whose fate was not ascertained , and who were never afterwards heard of . Upon ...
... rivers which run into the Missi- sippi from the east . Numbers also who escaped from death were cruelly maimed and mutilated ; others entirely disappeared , whose fate was not ascertained , and who were never afterwards heard of . Upon ...
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... river of the Iroquois , advanced as far as the lake which now bears his name . ' In this unjust aggression , he made a first experiment of the effect of fire - arms upon a people totally ignorant of the use of them . The first shot that ...
... river of the Iroquois , advanced as far as the lake which now bears his name . ' In this unjust aggression , he made a first experiment of the effect of fire - arms upon a people totally ignorant of the use of them . The first shot that ...
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343. oldal - I had even thought to have lived with you, but for the injuries of one man. Colonel Cresap, the last Spring, in cold blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. 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 harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
317. oldal - 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...
318. oldal - 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.
139. oldal - 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...
238. oldal - ... 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.
342. oldal - 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.
106. oldal - 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...
317. oldal - 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...
342. oldal - 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.
248. oldal - ... we know not when or how these Indians first became inhabitants of this mighty continent, yet we may guess that probably the Devil decoyed those miserable salvages hither, in hopes that the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to destroy or disturb his absolute empire over them.