 | John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1833 - 350 pages
...Earl of Sunderland, both describe an Indian treaty to this effect, to wit : To the Society he says, " I have had occasion to be in council with them upon...adjust the terms of trade. Their order is thus, the king sits in the middle of an half moon and hath his council, the old and wise on each hand. Behind... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1833 - 336 pages
...Earl of Sunderland, both describe an Indian treaty to this effect, to wit : To the Society he says, " I have had occasion to be in council with them upon...adjust the terms of trade. Their order is thus, the king sits in the middle of an half moon and hath his council, the old and wise on each hand. Behind... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1836 - 232 pages
...Nothing of moment is undertaken, be it war, peace, or selling of land, without adp 2 vising with them ; and which is more, with the young men too. It is admirable...to consider how powerful the kings are, and yet how entirely the creatures of their people. And it is equally admirable to see the exquisite order and... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Bibliography - 1836 - 264 pages
...selling of land or traffick, without advising with them, and, which is more, with the young men too. I have had occasion to be in council with them, upon treaties for land, and to adjust terms of trade."t William Penn, then, in order to give an idea of their manner of proceeding when they... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, Joshua Francis Fisher - Indians of North America - 1836 - 74 pages
...selling of land or traffick, without advising with them, and, which is more, with the young men too. I have had occasion to be in council with them, upon treaties for land, and to adjust terms of trade."t William Penn, then, in order to give an idea of their manner of proceeding when they... | |
 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - Quakers - 1841 - 552 pages
...of moment is undertaken, be it war, peace, selling of land or traffic, without advising with them ; and which is more, with the young men too. It is admirable...adjust the terms of trade ; their order is thus : the king sits in the middle of an half moon, and hath his council, the old and wise on each hand : behind... | |
 | Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 766 pages
...of moment is undertaken, be it war, peace, selling of land, or traffic, without advising with them ; and, which is more, with the young men too. It is...adjust the terms of trade. Their order is thus : The king sits in the middle of an half moon, and hath his council, the old and wise, on each hand ; behind... | |
 | Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 754 pages
...of moment is undertaken, be it war, peace, Belling of land, or traffic, without advising with them ; and, which is more, with the young men too. It is admirable to consider how powerful the kings ore, and yet bow they move by the breath of their people. I have had occasion to be in council with... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - New York (N.Y.) - 1846 - 470 pages
...of moment is undertaken, be it war, peace, selling of land, or traffic, without advising with them ; and which is more, with the young men too. It is admirable...and yet how they move by the breath of their people. For their original, I am ready to believe them of the Jewish race ; I mean, of the stock of the ten... | |
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Every king hath his council, and that consists of all the old and wise men of his nation, which perhaps is two hundred people. Nothing of moment is undertaken, be it war, peace, selling of land or traffic, without advising with them ; and which is more,... 
