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Page vii
... Hopes of Plunder . If Care were taken to plant and cultivate in them that general Bene- volence to Mankind , which is the true first Principle of Virtue , it would effectually eradicate those horrid Vices , occafioned by their unbounded ...
... Hopes of Plunder . If Care were taken to plant and cultivate in them that general Bene- volence to Mankind , which is the true first Principle of Virtue , it would effectually eradicate those horrid Vices , occafioned by their unbounded ...
Page viii
... Hopes of fuch extravagant Honours . Thefe Confiderations , I believe , will induce you , Sir , to think a History of the Five Nations not unworthy of your Patronage ; and on these only it is that I prefume to of- for fer my best ...
... Hopes of fuch extravagant Honours . Thefe Confiderations , I believe , will induce you , Sir , to think a History of the Five Nations not unworthy of your Patronage ; and on these only it is that I prefume to of- for fer my best ...
Page xi
... hope , will justify my attempting to write an Hiftory of the Five Nations at this Time ; and having had the Per- ufal of the Minutes of the Commissioners for Indian Affairs , I have been enabled to collect many Materials for this ...
... hope , will justify my attempting to write an Hiftory of the Five Nations at this Time ; and having had the Per- ufal of the Minutes of the Commissioners for Indian Affairs , I have been enabled to collect many Materials for this ...
Page xiv
... hope therefore the Reader will , from thefe Confiderations , receive this first Attempt of this kind , with more than ufual Allowances . The Inhabitants of New - York have been much more concerned in the Tranfactions , which followed ...
... hope therefore the Reader will , from thefe Confiderations , receive this first Attempt of this kind , with more than ufual Allowances . The Inhabitants of New - York have been much more concerned in the Tranfactions , which followed ...
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... The " greateft Inconveniency I labour under , is the Want " of an Interpreter , which could I obtain , for two " or three Years , I fhould hope to be tolerably " Mafter " Mafter of their Language , and be able to 18 The INTRODUCTION .
... The " greateft Inconveniency I labour under , is the Want " of an Interpreter , which could I obtain , for two " or three Years , I fhould hope to be tolerably " Mafter " Mafter of their Language , and be able to 18 The INTRODUCTION .
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Page 230 - ... five years, one for four years, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and thereafter as the terms of office expire in each year one member for a term of five years.
Page 205 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three : any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Page 215 - That all persons living in this province who confess and acknowledge the one almighty and eternal God to be the creator, upholder, and ruler of the world...
Page 190 - ... the beginning of the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles...
Page 68 - We see with our own eyes that they have been a very unruly people, and are altogether in the wrong in their dealings with you. We have concluded to remove them, and oblige them to go over the river Delaware, and quit all claim to any lands on this side for the future, since they have received pay for them, and it is gone through their guts long ago. To confirm to you that we will see your request executed, we lay down this string of wampum in return for yours.
Page 190 - ... but if the said river shall not extend so far northward, then by the said river so far as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern bounds are to be determined by a meridian line, to be drawn from the head of the said river, unto the said...
Page 213 - That all witnesses coming or called to testify their knowledge in or to any matter or thing in any court, or before any lawful authority within the said province, shall there give or deliver in their evidence or testimony, by solemnly promising to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, to the matter or thing in question...
Page 54 - We know our Lands are now become more valuable. The white People think we do not know their Value; but we are sensible that the Land is everlasting, and the few Goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.
Page 10 - The first Time I was among the Mohawks, I had this Compliment from one of their old Sachems, which he did, by giving me his own Name, Cayenderongue. He had been a notable Warrior; and he told me, that now I had a Right to assume...
Page 67 - Hear, Yonnondio: our women had taken their clubs, our children and old men had carried their bows and arrows into the heart of your camp, if our warriors had not disarmed them, and kept them back, when your messenger Ohgnesse came to our castles.