The North American Review, Band 24Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1827 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... scalp of every Anglo - American , which the Indians should produce . This open cru- elty was not retaliated by the English government upon the French inhabitants of Canada , but a bounty was offered of £ 100 on the scalp of the Indians ...
... scalp of every Anglo - American , which the Indians should produce . This open cru- elty was not retaliated by the English government upon the French inhabitants of Canada , but a bounty was offered of £ 100 on the scalp of the Indians ...
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... scalp is the most honorable trophy a warrior can exhibit . Authors have already remarked , that Herodotus describes this custom as existing among the Scythians , and Polybius , among the Carthaginians . It is commonly taken from the ...
... scalp is the most honorable trophy a warrior can exhibit . Authors have already remarked , that Herodotus describes this custom as existing among the Scythians , and Polybius , among the Carthaginians . It is commonly taken from the ...
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... scalp , than the living head ? Let those answer , who can . For ourselves , we know , that every successful war party , on its re- turn , was taken to the public store , and profusely supplied with clothing and other necessary articles ...
... scalp , than the living head ? Let those answer , who can . For ourselves , we know , that every successful war party , on its re- turn , was taken to the public store , and profusely supplied with clothing and other necessary articles ...
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... scalp taken in the late war , was torn from the head of a lifeless Indian by the teeth of a captain in the American service . This wretch , whose name was McCulloch , was killed in a skirmish on the 5th of August , 1812 , and in his ...
... scalp taken in the late war , was torn from the head of a lifeless Indian by the teeth of a captain in the American service . This wretch , whose name was McCulloch , was killed in a skirmish on the 5th of August , 1812 , and in his ...
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... scalp torn from the head of an Indian by Captain Mc Culloch , we shall tell in few words . The first scalp taken during the late war between the United States and Great Britain , was torn from the head of a British soldier by an Indian ...
... scalp torn from the head of an Indian by Captain Mc Culloch , we shall tell in few words . The first scalp taken during the late war between the United States and Great Britain , was torn from the head of a British soldier by an Indian ...
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Seite 361 - To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained ? The distinction between a government with limited and unlimited powers is abolished, if those limits do not confine the persons on whom they are imposed, and if acts prohibited and acts allowed, are of equal obligation.
Seite 110 - American Ornithology or the Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States not given by Wilson, with Figures Drawn, Engraved, and Coloured from Nature by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, 4 volumes.
Seite 362 - Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the Legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void.
Seite 128 - ... nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. Besides, he is a rank coward; the little king-bird, not bigger than a sparrow, attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is therefore by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America, who have driven all...
Seite 471 - To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtile and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
Seite 170 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Seite 361 - The power and duty of the judiciary to disregard an unconstitutional act of Congress, or of any State Legislature, were declared in an argument approaching to the precision and certainty of a mathematical demonstration.
Seite 121 - ... but man, and, from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad at one glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests, fields, lakes and ocean, deep below him; he appears indifferent to the little localities...
Seite 128 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly...
Seite 351 - It was declared by the amendment, that the judicial power of the United States should not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States, by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.