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 |
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Strona 7
... directed to those traits of character which support his position ; whereas , without it he may pass many of them by unobserved , for the want of ceiving their bearing on the point in view : and this was no doubt the case with the first ...
... directed to those traits of character which support his position ; whereas , without it he may pass many of them by unobserved , for the want of ceiving their bearing on the point in view : and this was no doubt the case with the first ...
Strona 22
... distinctly points to a Country and people situated as America and its inhabitants are , yet I must not omit directing the attention of my readers to its contents . It 1 begins with an invocation to the Isles - which term 22.
... distinctly points to a Country and people situated as America and its inhabitants are , yet I must not omit directing the attention of my readers to its contents . It 1 begins with an invocation to the Isles - which term 22.
Strona 84
... directed their attention , was to redeem from calumny the character of the native Indians , whose supposed incapacity had been made the pretext of so much injustice and cruelty . The country is stated by them " to be covered with the ...
... directed their attention , was to redeem from calumny the character of the native Indians , whose supposed incapacity had been made the pretext of so much injustice and cruelty . The country is stated by them " to be covered with the ...
Strona 88
... directed their attention to that bright luminary , as the ancient Persians and Chaldeans did , because it is the direct dwelling Place of the Great Spirit — as we say , Heaven is God's throne . But they certainly have formed no images ...
... directed their attention to that bright luminary , as the ancient Persians and Chaldeans did , because it is the direct dwelling Place of the Great Spirit — as we say , Heaven is God's throne . But they certainly have formed no images ...
Strona 100
... directing their movement . At the second round they began to sing on a bass key , y , y , y , till they completed the circle , dancing to the sound of the drum in a serious manner . On the third round , their ardour increased , they ...
... directing their movement . At the second round they began to sing on a bass key , y , y , y , till they completed the circle , dancing to the sound of the drum in a serious manner . On the third round , their ardour increased , they ...
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Strona 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.
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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 - But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.