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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... present day to effect their civil and religious advancement . If , by pointing out the errors of former times , it can at all serve as a beacon in future attempts at Indian civilization or conversion , one important step towards success ...
... present day to effect their civil and religious advancement . If , by pointing out the errors of former times , it can at all serve as a beacon in future attempts at Indian civilization or conversion , one important step towards success ...
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... presents to wipe away this offence . " . " As there is no police amongst the savages , " continues Le Jeune , " if one of them kills or wounds another , he may be quit by giving some presents to the friends of the deceased , or to the ...
... presents to wipe away this offence . " . " As there is no police amongst the savages , " continues Le Jeune , " if one of them kills or wounds another , he may be quit by giving some presents to the friends of the deceased , or to the ...
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... present in their conflicts , and underwent great personal danger while performing their religious duties , baptizing ... present to his readers , at full length , the particulars of his fate . He takes his statement from Father Brebeuf ...
... present in their conflicts , and underwent great personal danger while performing their religious duties , baptizing ... present to his readers , at full length , the particulars of his fate . He takes his statement from Father Brebeuf ...
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... present during the whole of the dreadful ceremony , to be such as to make human nature shudder . The missionaries obtained for him a respite , from time to time , in which Brebeuf persevered in his religious exhortations . During these ...
... present during the whole of the dreadful ceremony , to be such as to make human nature shudder . The missionaries obtained for him a respite , from time to time , in which Brebeuf persevered in his religious exhortations . During these ...
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... present occasion , to make a sacrifice of this chief . " * The cold - blooded reasoning of La Potherie can only be equalled by the savage determination of De Louvigny , whom Charlevoix describes as " one of the most accomplished ...
... present occasion , to make a sacrifice of this chief . " * The cold - blooded reasoning of La Potherie can only be equalled by the savage determination of De Louvigny , whom Charlevoix describes as " one of the most accomplished ...
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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...