The Citizen of Nature: In Series of Letters from an American Indian in London to His Friend at Home |
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... hands of savages who know not mercy , than to lose our substance under the grasp of the oppressor , who knows it only by name . " - " What , " said I mentally , " do not these strangers profess to possess a balm for every wound of body ...
... hands of savages who know not mercy , than to lose our substance under the grasp of the oppressor , who knows it only by name . " - " What , " said I mentally , " do not these strangers profess to possess a balm for every wound of body ...
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... hand of brother- hood ; their children are like those of the old time , and will deceive thee : our Fathers were too sparing of the tomahawk : had they not been so , we , their descendants , should not be at this day loaded with the ...
... hand of brother- hood ; their children are like those of the old time , and will deceive thee : our Fathers were too sparing of the tomahawk : had they not been so , we , their descendants , should not be at this day loaded with the ...
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... hand , and pointing into the distance with the other , ex- claimed , energetically , " See you that dusky ridge stretching along the farthest verge of the horizon ? ” - 66 " I see , " said 1 , a long cloud , which seems to rise from the ...
... hand , and pointing into the distance with the other , ex- claimed , energetically , " See you that dusky ridge stretching along the farthest verge of the horizon ? ” - 66 " I see , " said 1 , a long cloud , which seems to rise from the ...
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... hands , which , unseen , direct their movements . " " But , " I exclaimed , " you hint I have been already misled by appearances ; how do I know but that you will unintentionally deceive me by your expositions ? nay , how can I tell but ...
... hands , which , unseen , direct their movements . " " But , " I exclaimed , " you hint I have been already misled by appearances ; how do I know but that you will unintentionally deceive me by your expositions ? nay , how can I tell but ...
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... hand that caressed him . Blows and confinement , cruelty of every description , have produced the excitement of frame which now render him a terror to his own species , and to man his instructor . Now , if unrestrained by habitual dread ...
... hand that caressed him . Blows and confinement , cruelty of every description , have produced the excitement of frame which now render him a terror to his own species , and to man his instructor . Now , if unrestrained by habitual dread ...
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Page 162 - that reason suits neither you or me : Sully did not go to mass, and Sully was of the council.' ' Maurepas, in this answer, only caught at the ridicule of...