A View of the American Indians: Their General Character, Customs, Language, Public Festivals, Religious Rites, and Traditions: Shewing Them to be the Descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel. The Language of Prophecy Concerning Them, and the Course by which They Travelled from Media Into Americaauthor, and sold, 1828 - 185 páginas |
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... resemblance , are marked by traits wide enough to be known , as well in general ap- pearance as in colour ; nor can we readily say , why these nations have assumed peculiarities by which they are known among their fellows . But they ...
... resemblance , are marked by traits wide enough to be known , as well in general ap- pearance as in colour ; nor can we readily say , why these nations have assumed peculiarities by which they are known among their fellows . But they ...
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... resemblance is discovered among them , they have all the appearance of being descended from one stock . When this extensive country became first known to the Europeans , it bore evident marks of having been but recently the abode of men ...
... resemblance is discovered among them , they have all the appearance of being descended from one stock . When this extensive country became first known to the Europeans , it bore evident marks of having been but recently the abode of men ...
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... resemblance which we are now seeking for , because they had no conception of their existence , and their minds and their whole attention were turned to very different objects . The man I may be lead astray in a contrary course . who ...
... resemblance which we are now seeking for , because they had no conception of their existence , and their minds and their whole attention were turned to very different objects . The man I may be lead astray in a contrary course . who ...
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... resemble the Laplanders , Samoyeds and Tartars , who may have gone over from the north of Europe to Iceland and thence to Greenland and Labrador . These people do not seem to have intermixed with the Indians . Du Pratz , in his history ...
... resemble the Laplanders , Samoyeds and Tartars , who may have gone over from the north of Europe to Iceland and thence to Greenland and Labrador . These people do not seem to have intermixed with the Indians . Du Pratz , in his history ...
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... resemblance to the Europeans . Of the origin of those people we are instructed by Grotius , that " some of the Norwegians passed over into America by way of Greenland . " Proud of their red colour , to the white people the natives give ...
... resemblance to the Europeans . Of the origin of those people we are instructed by Grotius , that " some of the Norwegians passed over into America by way of Greenland . " Proud of their red colour , to the white people the natives give ...
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Página 20 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, That I will send a famine in the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord : And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Página 16 - And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
Página 17 - I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Página 16 - I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Página 109 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 24 - Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not : thou, 0 LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer ; thy Name is from everlasting.
Página 132 - ... that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt, that they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land. And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow passages of the river. For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over.
Página 66 - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon...
Página 49 - And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.
Página 24 - For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.