| Henry Harvey - Indians of North America - 1855 - 356 pages
...friendship between them to n chain, for the rain might rust it, or a tree might fall and break it, but he should consider them as the same flesh and blood with the Christians, and the same as if one man were to be divided into two parts. He then took up the parchment and presented it to the Sachem... | |
| Henry Harvey - 1855 - 334 pages
...friendship between them to a chain, for the rain might rust it, or a tree might fall and break it, but he should consider them as the same flesh "and blood with the Christians, and the same as if one man were to be divided into two parts. He then took up the parchment and presented it to the Sachem... | |
| American poetry - 1855 - 248 pages
...rust it, or a tree might fall and break it; but I shall consider you as the same flesh and blood as the Christians ; and the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts." WM. PENN'S SPEECH TO THE INDIANS. There was a stir in Pennsylvanian woods, A gathering as the war-cry... | |
| Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1855 - 608 pages
...I will not compare to a chain, for that the rains might rust, or a falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts ; we are all one flesh and blood." Thus was that famous Treaty made, of which Voltaire justly said,... | |
| Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1855 - 806 pages
...I will not compare to a chain, for that the rain might rust, or a falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts ; we are all one flesh and blood.' Thus was tliat famous treaty made, of which Voltaire justly said,... | |
| William O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1124 pages
...it, or a tree might fall and break it ; but he should consider them as the same flesh and blood as the Christians and the same as if one man's body were...parchment and presented it to the sachem who wore the horn in the chaplet, and desired him and the other sachems to preserve it carefully for three generations,... | |
| Charles De Wolf Brownell - Indians - 1856 - 742 pages
...and them to a Chain, for the rain might sometimes rust it, or a tree might fall and break it; but he should consider them as the same flesh and blood with...one man's body were to be divided into two parts." Handing the parchment to the chief sachem, Penn then desired him and his associates "to preserve it... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1858 - 482 pages
...you, I will not compare to a chain ; for the rains may rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts, — we are all one flesh and blood." 10. Touched by this warm-hearted and generous address, the Indians... | |
| William Hone - 1859 - 918 pages
...them to a chain ; for the rain might sometimes rust it, or a tree might fall and break it ; but he should consider them as the same flesh and blood with...parchment, and presented it to the Sachem who wore the horn in the chaplet, and desired him and the other Sachems to preserve it carefully for three generations... | |
| George Bancroft - 1855 - 516 pages
...will not compare to a chain ; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts; we are all one flesh and blood." This treaty of peace and friendship was made under the open sky, by... | |
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