 We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it; and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them...  Select Pieces - Seite 44von Benjamin Franklin - 1804 - 59 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Paul Mussen - 1983 - 590 Seiten
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 | Nancy L. Gifford - 1983 - 159 Seiten
...fit for Hunters, Warriors, nor Counsellors, they were totally good for nothing. . . . We will take Care of their Education, instruct them in all we know, and make Men of them. 4 The lesson should be clear. If we wish to genuinely understand and come to know other cultures, we... | |
 | Jean Barman, Yvonne M. Hébert, Don McCaskill - 1986 - 265 Seiten
...We are however not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it. And to show our grateful sense of it, if the Gentlemen of Virginia...education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.1 These remarks, made by Red Jacket of the Senecas in l744, ring as true today as then. The needs... | |
 | Carolyn Merchant - 1989 - 379 Seiten
...We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, tho' we decline accepting it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia...education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.90 The downfall of the Indians' memorized oral tradition and its replacement by a European system... | |
 | Sharon O'Brien - 1993 - 368 Seiten
...grateful Sense of it, if the Gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a Dozen of their Sons, we will take care of their Education, instruct them in all we know, and make Men of them. Conassatego, of the Iroquois League, replying to an offer by the Virginia Legislature to the Six Nations,... | |
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