Discourse Delivered Before the New-York Historical Society: At Their Anniversary Meeting, 6th December, 1811 |
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... grounds in the United States from whence the waters run in every direction . The Ohio , the Delaware , the Susque- hanna , the Hudson and the St. Lawrence , almost all the great rivers , besides a very considerable number of secondary ...
... grounds in the United States from whence the waters run in every direction . The Ohio , the Delaware , the Susque- hanna , the Hudson and the St. Lawrence , almost all the great rivers , besides a very considerable number of secondary ...
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... grounds were very extensive , in- cluding a large triangle on the south - east side of the St. Lawrence River - the country lying on the south and east sides of Lake Erie - the country between the Lakes Erie and Michigan , and the ...
... grounds were very extensive , in- cluding a large triangle on the south - east side of the St. Lawrence River - the country lying on the south and east sides of Lake Erie - the country between the Lakes Erie and Michigan , and the ...
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... ground of war , treat- ed the persons supplying their enemies , as enemies , and devoted them to death . But the ... grounds , and to monopolize the best and the most furs . And it was sometimes the policy of the French to divert the ...
... ground of war , treat- ed the persons supplying their enemies , as enemies , and devoted them to death . But the ... grounds , and to monopolize the best and the most furs . And it was sometimes the policy of the French to divert the ...
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... ground , which they occupied in their own estima- tion and in the opinion of the nations . Their ex- peditions into Canada were fequent - wherever they marched terror and desolation composed their train . " And vengeance striding from ...
... ground , which they occupied in their own estima- tion and in the opinion of the nations . Their ex- peditions into Canada were fequent - wherever they marched terror and desolation composed their train . " And vengeance striding from ...
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... ground . Formerly they killed for the sake of subsistence : the Europeans instigated them to kill for the sake of the furs and skins . The use of fire- arms has had the effect , by the explosion of pow- der , of frightening away the ...
... ground . Formerly they killed for the sake of subsistence : the Europeans instigated them to kill for the sake of the furs and skins . The use of fire- arms has had the effect , by the explosion of pow- der , of frightening away the ...
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Page 5 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 11 - The subjects of France inhabiting Canada, and others, shall hereafter give no hindrance or molestation to the Five Nations or cantons of Indians, subject to the dominion of Great Britain, nor to the other natives of America, who are friends to the same.
Page 2 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Page 49 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin ? PORTIUS.
Page 18 - This string of wampum serves to forbid you, your children and grand-children to the latest posterity, for ever, meddling in land affairs; neither you nor any who shall descend from you, are ever hereafter to presume to sell any land...
Page 55 - Soto, who landed with one thousand men in Florida in 1539, and penetrated a considerable distance into the interior of the country. He allotted the large fort for the use of the Spanish army; and after being extremely puzzled how to dispose of the small one in its vicinity, he at last assigned it to the swine, that generally, as he...
Page 18 - For this purpose you are to preserve this string, in memory of what your uncles have this day given you in charge. We have some other business to transact with our brethren, and therefore depart the council, and consider what has been said to you.
Page 40 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished any more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
Page 61 - Asia had thus exhausted its exuberant population by such a great migration, it would require a very long period of time to produce a cooperation of causes, sufficient to effect another. The first mighty stream of people that flowed into America, must have remained free from external pressure for ages.
Page 57 - It is equally clear that they were not the work of the Indians. Until the Senecas, who are renowned for their national vanity, had seen the attention of the Americans attracted to these erections, and had invented the fabulous account of which I have spoken, the Indians of the present day did not pretend to know any thing about their origin. They were beyond the reach of all their traditions, and were lost in the abyss of unexplored antiquity.