The Retrospective Review, Tom 1John Russell Smith, 1853 |
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... Indians . Dull . Colonel Downright has hit it : why should we endanger our men against a desperate termagant ? If he love wounds and scars so well , let him exercise on our enemies - but , if he will needs fall upon us , ' tis then time ...
... Indians . Dull . Colonel Downright has hit it : why should we endanger our men against a desperate termagant ? If he love wounds and scars so well , let him exercise on our enemies - but , if he will needs fall upon us , ' tis then time ...
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... Indian Bacchus , and what could be a more fit accompani- ment of Bacchus than an emblem of Eros ? Bishop Berkeley himself furnishes abundant proof that the true virtues of the pine and tar were known to the ancients . Pliny tells us ...
... Indian Bacchus , and what could be a more fit accompani- ment of Bacchus than an emblem of Eros ? Bishop Berkeley himself furnishes abundant proof that the true virtues of the pine and tar were known to the ancients . Pliny tells us ...
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... Indians of America ) were once brought over to the Christian faith , they might soon be brought to relish a more civilized kind of life , and be thereby induced to take off great quantities of our coarser woollen manufactures . " Of the ...
... Indians of America ) were once brought over to the Christian faith , they might soon be brought to relish a more civilized kind of life , and be thereby induced to take off great quantities of our coarser woollen manufactures . " Of the ...
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... Indians of Subtraba about the Indian population of the United States ; and he says , " I blush to say it , I was ashamed to tell them the truth . " Cain was asked for his brother , and evaded the question . A newspaper account of the ...
... Indians of Subtraba about the Indian population of the United States ; and he says , " I blush to say it , I was ashamed to tell them the truth . " Cain was asked for his brother , and evaded the question . A newspaper account of the ...
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... Indian army on the field , might , it is true , afford promotion to the inex- perienced and worthless , if only such were left , but still it would impair the army's efficiency ; and the death of five out of every twenty sound men , in ...
... Indian army on the field , might , it is true , afford promotion to the inex- perienced and worthless , if only such were left , but still it would impair the army's efficiency ; and the death of five out of every twenty sound men , in ...
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