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 من الصفحات |
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... OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS- OPINIONS OF VARIOUS WRITERS ON THIS SUBJECT . THE manners and customs of the Indians of North America have often furnished matter of curious and interesting inquiry . From the ...
... OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS- OPINIONS OF VARIOUS WRITERS ON THIS SUBJECT . THE manners and customs of the Indians of North America have often furnished matter of curious and interesting inquiry . From the ...
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... observations upon the early proceedings respecting the Indians - and upon the results which flowed from them - it is also intended to submit such remarks and suggestions as appear more immediately applicable to the attempts made in 2 ...
... observations upon the early proceedings respecting the Indians - and upon the results which flowed from them - it is also intended to submit such remarks and suggestions as appear more immediately applicable to the attempts made in 2 ...
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... observe among them less criminality than in France , although here the only punishment of crime is the shame of having committed it . " * Père Vivier , another of the Jesuits , thus de- scribes the Illinois Indians , among whom he ...
... observe among them less criminality than in France , although here the only punishment of crime is the shame of having committed it . " * Père Vivier , another of the Jesuits , thus de- scribes the Illinois Indians , among whom he ...
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... observations . My long residence among these nations , in the constant habit of unrestrained familiarity , has enabled me to know them well , and made me intimately acquainted 66 . * Loskiel's History of the Missions among the Indians ...
... observations . My long residence among these nations , in the constant habit of unrestrained familiarity , has enabled me to know them well , and made me intimately acquainted 66 . * Loskiel's History of the Missions among the Indians ...
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... ( Introduction , p . 24. ) Published in the Transactions of the Philosophical Society at Philadelphia , by the Rev. John Heckewelder . ( 1819. ) 1 $ -- none observed them with a more skilful eye ; CH . I. THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS . 13.
... ( Introduction , p . 24. ) Published in the Transactions of the Philosophical Society at Philadelphia , by the Rev. John Heckewelder . ( 1819. ) 1 $ -- none observed them with a more skilful eye ; CH . I. THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS . 13.
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 115 - I never begged any thing of the state, or any, and it is my want of abilitie and her exceeding desert, your birth...