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. Relics of Literature - الصفحة 186بواسطة Reuben Percy - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 400عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1789 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...particular account of the Government of the Druzes, a People of Syria^-fnm the fame tcork 1^3 Remarkable Speech of Logan, a Mingo Chief, to Lord Dunmore, "when Governor of Virginia— from Mr. Jefferjon's Obfervations on Buffo/rs Remarks on the Indians of Not tb ¿imerica IS» The 'Story... | |
| 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...inverted, xxiv. [131] — capitulation of York Town and the Britifli army, xxiv. [134] — the fpeech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to lord Dunmore, when governor of Virginia, with the circumftances which gave rife to it, xxix. 151. Voltaire ¡ Voltaire j the leader pf a clafs... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1803 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...because jt is displayed chiefly in their own councils. Some, however, we have of very superior lustre. I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state. And, as a • XVIII. 14$ f Linn. Syft. Definition of a Man. testimony of their talents... | |
| DeWitt Clinton - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 90
...of the pale of the Six Nations. I fully subscribe to the eulogium of Mr. Jefferson, when he says, " I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes,...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 - عدد الصفحات: 558
...out of the pale of the Six Nations. I fully subscribe to the eulogium of Mr. Jefferson, when he says, "I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...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 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...described in the following extract from Winterbotliam's History of America, vol. ip 133, 134. " We may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and...Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when Governor of the state of Virginia. The story is as follows ; of which, and of the speech, the authenticity is unquestionable.... | |
| Richard Snowden - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...example?, because it is chieffy displayed in their own councils. One, however, we have of superior lustre: the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of Virginia, at the close of a war in which the Shawanese, Mingoes, and Delaufcres were united. The Indians were... | |
| James Buchanan - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...because it is displayed chiefly in their own Councils. Some we have, however, of very superior lustre. I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...Logan, a Mingo Chief, to Lord Dunmore, when Governor of this state;* and as a testimony of their talents in this line, I beg leave to introduce it, first stating... | |
| James Buchanan - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 164
...because it is displayed chiefly in their own Councils. Some we have, however, of very superior lustre. I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...Logan, a Mingo Chief, to Lord Dunmore, when Governor of this state;* and as a testimony of their talents in this line, I begleave to introduce it, first stating... | |
| John West - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 142
...lest delay should burn your hearts any longer, I give you the cool refreshing word, Away /" And " we may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and...eminent orator, (if Europe has furnished more eminent,)" says Jefferson, in his Notes on the State of Virginia, " to produce a single passage superior to the... | |
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