 | Benjamin Drake - Shawnee Indians - 1841 - 252 pages
...intimately, who has often met him in the council and on the field of battle, we may venture to pronounce him, one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally...revolutions, and overturn the established order of things ; and, who, but for the power of the United States, would, perhaps, have been the founder of an empire... | |
 | Benjamin Drake - Indians of North America - 1850 - 246 pages
...followers of Tecumseh pay to him, is really astonishing, and more than any other circumstance bespeaks him one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally...order of things. If it were not for the vicinity of the-United States, he would, perhaps, be the founder of an empire that would rival in glory Mexico... | |
 | James Parton - Presidents - 1860 - 810 pages
...circumstances of life, as the greatest men always are, he could employ more than the eloquence of Logan when descanting upon the Indian's wrongs and the white...him as " one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up^occasionally to produce revolutions, and overturn the established order of things. If it were not... | |
 | 1844 - 778 pages
...president - £> ,\ *TT f . -, r* . . r m. but without fear ; and of him General Harrison said, " He was one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally...revolutions and overturn the established order of things, and that, if it had not been for the power and vicinity of the United States, he would, perhaps, have... | |
 | Ohio - 1906 - 538 pages
...followers of Tecumseh pay him are really astonishing and more than any other circumstance bespeak him one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the existing order of things. If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would be the founder... | |
 | Ohio - 1906 - 562 pages
...followers of Tecumseh pay him are really astonishing and more than any other circumstance bespeak him one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the existing order of things. If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would be the founder... | |
 | James Mooney - Dakota Indians - 1896 - 630 pages
...with I u ^r fine features, and altogether a daring, hold-looking fellow. — ('aptain Ftoyd, 1H10. One of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the e8tahli»lied order of things. — Governor Harrison. EXPLANATION OF FIGURE 58 This portrait is a copy... | |
 | 1896 - 612 pages
...high, straight, with large, fine fe: altogether a during, bold-looking follow.— Captain Floyd, 1810. One of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn tJhe established order of things. — Governor Harrison. EXPLANATION OF FIGURE 58 This portrait is... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology - America - 1896 - 600 pages
...and altogether a daring, hold-looking fcRuw. — Captain Floyd, 1810. One of those uncommon -.run*., which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the established order of things. — (lortrnor Harrison. EXPLANATION OK FIGURE 58 This portrait is a copy of the one given by Lossing... | |
 | Arthur St. Clair Colyar - United States - 1904 - 456 pages
...practice of torturing prisoners. General Harrison, who finally conquered him, says of him: "He was one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions and overturn the order of things. If it were not for the vicinity of the United States, he would, perhaps, be the founder... | |
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The implicit obedience and respect which the followers of Tecumseh pay to him, is really astonishing, and more than any other circumstance bespeaks him one of those uncommon geniuses which spring up occasionally to produce revolutions, and overturn the... 
