| Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 372 Seiten
...speech of which Thomas Jefferson says : " I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and of Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe...furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage Buperior to it." 80. LADY RANDOLPH'S SOLILOQUY. — Rev. John Home. 1. Ye woods and wilds, whose melancholy... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1847 - 680 Seiten
...— Not one !" Of this specimen of Indian eloquence Mr. Jefferson remark*, " I may challenge all the orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more...a single passage superior to the speech of Logan." TH A YEN DA:* EGA, known to the whites as Colonel Joseph JBrant, was a celebrated Iroquols chief of... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1847 - 732 Seiten
...I3.' Of this specimen of Indian eloquence Mr. Jefferson remarks, " I may challenge all the ormtion* of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe Пая furnished more eminent, to produce a angle passage superior to tbe speech of Logan." Ï.' •... | |
| Samuel G. Drake - 1848 - 746 Seiten
...out of the pale of the Six Nations. I fully subscribe to the eulogium of Mr. Jefferson, when he says, 'I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...a single passage superior to the speech of Logan.' But let it be remembered id.it Logan was a Mingo chief," that is, an Iroquois. The time is not far... | |
| Samuel G. Drake - 1848 - 708 Seiten
...out of the pale of the Six Nations. I fully subscribe to the eulognim of Mr. Jtffertan, when he says, 'I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...produce a single passage superior to the speech of Logan.'1 But let it be remembered that Logan was a .\fmgo chief," that is, an Iroquois. The time is... | |
| DeWitt Clinton, William W. Campbell - 1849 - 436 Seiten
...of the pale of the Six Nations. I fully subscribe to the eulogium of Mr. Jefferson, when he says, " I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...a single passage superior to the speech of Logan." But let it be remembered that Logan was a Mingo chief, the second son of Shikellemus, a celebrated... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1849 - 348 Seiten
...orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and, indeed, of any more eminent orators, if Europe, or the world, has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, delivered to Lord Dunrnore, when governor of Virginia. As a testimony of Indian talents in this line,... | |
| George Warburton - 1849 - 478 Seiten
...hearts.4 The celebrated address of Logan is too well known to be cited here. Mr. Jefferson says of it, "I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any other more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage superior... | |
| George Warburton - 1850 - 360 Seiten
...Cicero. The celebrated address of Logan is too well known to be cited here. Mr. Jefferson says of it, "I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any other more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage superior... | |
| Wills De Hass - 1851 - 444 Seiten
...language. Mr. Jefferson remarked of it, " I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and of Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe...more eminent, to produce a single passage superior to it ;" and an American statesman and scholar, (De Witt Clinton,) scarcely less illustrious than the... | |
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