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... Life of Benjamin Franklin - Seite 174von Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 224 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Oro Noque - 1872 - 178 Seiten
...warriors, or counselors ; they were totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it :...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Among the Indians, the sachems or chiefs were absolute in power. The office was hereditary, and it... | |
| Samuel G. Drake - 1880 - 800 Seiten
...warriors, or counsellors ; they were totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it: and...the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of thfir sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men... | |
| Charles Reemelin - 1881 - 670 Seiten
...warriors, nor counsellors ; they were totally good for nothing. We are not, however, the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it. And...Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, we will instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." So much of this... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1882 - 518 Seiten
...spoke our language imperfectly. We are nevertheless obliged to yon, and if the gentlemen will send a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, and make men ef them." Of the ten graduates given nothing is known. The first royal charter of the... | |
| E.H. Butler & Co - 1853 - 396 Seiten
...for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting of it ; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." them. The old men sit in the foremost ranks, the warriors in the next, and the women and children in... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1885 - 266 Seiten
...for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting of it ; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.' 6. Having frequent occasions to hold public councils, they have acquired great order and decency in... | |
| Orville T. Bright, James Baldwin - 1889 - 524 Seiten
...warriors, nor counselors ; they were totally fit for nothing. We are, therefore, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it ;...make men of them." Having frequent occasions to hold public councils, , they have acquired great order and decency in conducting them. The old men sit in... | |
| Charles Elmer Allison - 1889 - 138 Seiten
...warriors or counselors; they were totally good for nothing. We are not, however, the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it; and...show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Vir.•iniii will send us a dox.cn of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct... | |
| George W. Lindsay, Charles C. Conley, Charles H. Litchman - 1893 - 664 Seiten
...warriors, nor counsellors ; they were totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it, and...instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Success of a Missionary. — Those who have attempted to Christianize the Indians complain that they... | |
| Albert Ross Parsons - 1893 - 472 Seiten
...totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though wedecline accepting it ; and to show our grateful sense of it,...education, instruct them in all we know, and make men ofiheni.' " Having frequent occasions to hold public councils, they have acquired great order and decency... | |
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