Lives of Celebrated American IndiansJ.M. Allen, 1844 - 315 páginas |
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... natural that , as well to express their own feelings , as to make their conduct stand fair before the world , they should portray the Indians in the most unfavorable light . As they professed to be guided by religious motives in all ...
... natural that , as well to express their own feelings , as to make their conduct stand fair before the world , they should portray the Indians in the most unfavorable light . As they professed to be guided by religious motives in all ...
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... natural disposition to interpret the bosoms of others by our own , has led historians and philosophers to estimate the Indians by transatlantic standards of thought , feeling and action . Whatever may have been the beginning of this ...
... natural disposition to interpret the bosoms of others by our own , has led historians and philosophers to estimate the Indians by transatlantic standards of thought , feeling and action . Whatever may have been the beginning of this ...
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... natural and moral duties . The government he established , and which pre- vailed over the country till the arrival of the Span- iards , was a paternal despotism , founded upon reli- gion . The Inca was not merely the head of the state ...
... natural and moral duties . The government he established , and which pre- vailed over the country till the arrival of the Span- iards , was a paternal despotism , founded upon reli- gion . The Inca was not merely the head of the state ...
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... nature of a rebellion against the reigning prince . A power so absolute was not abused by the possessor : among the twelve successive mon- archs , from Manco Capac to Atahualpa , there was not one tyrant . We are told that the founder ...
... nature of a rebellion against the reigning prince . A power so absolute was not abused by the possessor : among the twelve successive mon- archs , from Manco Capac to Atahualpa , there was not one tyrant . We are told that the founder ...
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... nature , to quit your idols , and adore the Sun as your benefactor and your god . " He then permitted them to embrace his right knee in token of protection , -a remarkable favor , as it was sacrilege for any one , not of the imperial ...
... nature , to quit your idols , and adore the Sun as your benefactor and your god . " He then permitted them to embrace his right knee in token of protection , -a remarkable favor , as it was sacrilege for any one , not of the imperial ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admiration afterwards Americans appears Araucanians arms army Atahualpa attack battle beautiful became Black Hawk Bonaparte Brant British brother Burke Burns Byron Caupolican Cervantes character chief command Cortez Cuzco death Don Quixote emperor enemy English eyes father feelings fell fire force gave genius Göthe hand head heart honor horses hostile Huascar Huayna Capac hundred iards Ietan immediately Inca Indians inhabitants Johnson king land Lautaro lived Lord Manco Capac manner Mayta Capac ment Mexicans Mexico mind Montezuma Napoleon never noble officers Opechancanough party peace person Peru Peruvians Philip Pocahontas poems poet poetry Pontiac possession Powhatan prisoner Quetzalcoatl received remarkable replied river savage scene Scott sent Shakspere soldiers soon Soto Spaniards Spanish spirit Tecumseh thou thought thousand tion told took town tribes troops Tupac Tupac Amaru Vitachuco warriors whole wife Xolotl young
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Página 73 - And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud...
Página 187 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering Worth is...
Página 231 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 73 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder!
Página 184 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
Página 72 - Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Página 212 - Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.
Página 186 - Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Página 166 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Página 72 - Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires,— 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.