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 Conerning Them, and the Course by which They Travelled from Media Into Americaauthor, and sold, 1828 - 185 |
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... tion they had obtained , what they saw and what they heard . ' " This raised in the writer's mind such an idea of some former connection between these aborigines of our land and the Jewish nation , as greatly to increase a desire for ...
... tion they had obtained , what they saw and what they heard . ' " This raised in the writer's mind such an idea of some former connection between these aborigines of our land and the Jewish nation , as greatly to increase a desire for ...
Strona 69
... tion , that there is one great and good God , who is over all the rest : by the many gods may be meant the lesser spi- rits or angels , in which they all believe . To persons so ignorant of what they ought first to have known , and ...
... tion , that there is one great and good God , who is over all the rest : by the many gods may be meant the lesser spi- rits or angels , in which they all believe . To persons so ignorant of what they ought first to have known , and ...
Strona 70
... tion was with them gloomy and attrocious ; its divinities clothed with terror and delighting in vengeance : they were exhibited under detestable forms which created hor- ror . The figures of serpents , vipers , and other destructive ...
... tion was with them gloomy and attrocious ; its divinities clothed with terror and delighting in vengeance : they were exhibited under detestable forms which created hor- ror . The figures of serpents , vipers , and other destructive ...
Strona 102
... tion they have been generally sober and regular : but these descendants of Israel , if such they are , have been inveigled and destroyed through their devotedness to strong drink more than through any other causes . Their ene- mies have ...
... tion they have been generally sober and regular : but these descendants of Israel , if such they are , have been inveigled and destroyed through their devotedness to strong drink more than through any other causes . Their ene- mies have ...
Strona 114
... tion of this people is so guttural as to make even the Hebrew words appear different to those who are looking for them : their language consists of a multitude of monosyllables added together ; every property or circumstance of a thing ...
... tion of this people is so guttural as to make even the Hebrew words appear different to those who are looking for them : their language consists of a multitude of monosyllables added together ; every property or circumstance of a thing ...
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Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 17 - And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Strona 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...
Strona 24 - For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Strona 90 - But this is not all; they agree in rites; they reckon by moons; they offer their first fruits; they have a kind of feast of tabernacles; they are said to lay their altar upon twelve stones; their mourning a year; customs of women, with many other things that do not now occur.