Biography and History of the Indians of North America;: Comprising a General Account of Them, and Details in the Lives of All the Most Distinguished Chiefs, and Others, who Have Been Noted, Among the Various Indian Nations Upon the Continent. Also, a History of Their Wars; Their Manners and Customs; and the Most Celebrated Speeches of Their Orators, from Their First Being Known to Europeans to the Present Time. Likewise Exhibiting an Analysis of the Most Distinguished, as Well as Absurd Authors, who Have Written Upon the Great Question of the First Peopling of America. : [Six Lines from Bryant]O.L. Perkins, 56 Cornhill, and Hilliard, Gray & Company, 1834 - Indians of North America - 540 pages |
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... possession of every and print his work , and to make it appear last Should an all upon it should be col would begin ; and his labors , however well direc valuable to himself , might , by a common accident , a shorter space of time than ...
... possession of every and print his work , and to make it appear last Should an all upon it should be col would begin ; and his labors , however well direc valuable to himself , might , by a common accident , a shorter space of time than ...
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... possession of every material neces- sary for his undertaking , may write and print his work , and the next day dis- cover facts of so much importance , as to make it appear to his mind , that all he has done is of no value , compared ...
... possession of every material neces- sary for his undertaking , may write and print his work , and the next day dis- cover facts of so much importance , as to make it appear to his mind , that all he has done is of no value , compared ...
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... possessions there . " If Aristotle had uttered this as a prediction , that such a thing would take * America known to the Ancients , 10 , 8vo , Boston , 1773 . + Encyclopædia Perthensis , Art . ATLANTIS . De mirabil . auscultat . Opera ...
... possessions there . " If Aristotle had uttered this as a prediction , that such a thing would take * America known to the Ancients , 10 , 8vo , Boston , 1773 . + Encyclopædia Perthensis , Art . ATLANTIS . De mirabil . auscultat . Opera ...
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... possessed of any invention to perpetuate their memoirs , they have entirely lost it ; and all that is now found among them , amounts to no more than some obscure oral traditions , probably more and more adulterated by a long succession ...
... possessed of any invention to perpetuate their memoirs , they have entirely lost it ; and all that is now found among them , amounts to no more than some obscure oral traditions , probably more and more adulterated by a long succession ...
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... possessed by the Newenglanders , had been forlorn and wretched heathen ever since their first herding here ; and ... possessions here . There were , I think , 20 several nations ( if I may call them so ) of Indians upon that spot of ...
... possessed by the Newenglanders , had been forlorn and wretched heathen ever since their first herding here ; and ... possessions here . There were , I think , 20 several nations ( if I may call them so ) of Indians upon that spot of ...
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