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... force of brute strength . To this moment not the slightest advance is made towards a regular system of settling national disputes by the head in- stead of the hand . To this moment the stupid prac- tice of settling individual disputes ...
... force of brute strength . To this moment not the slightest advance is made towards a regular system of settling national disputes by the head in- stead of the hand . To this moment the stupid prac- tice of settling individual disputes ...
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... force us to feel The desolation and the agony of our fierce doings ? Coleridge . This is the aspect of the Christian world in its most polished and enlightened quarter : -there surely is some need of serious inquiry ; there must surely ...
... force us to feel The desolation and the agony of our fierce doings ? Coleridge . This is the aspect of the Christian world in its most polished and enlightened quarter : -there surely is some need of serious inquiry ; there must surely ...
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... force , we shall be less than Englishmen and Christians if we do not stamp the whole system of colonial usage towards the natives , with that general and indignant odium which must demolish it at once and for ever . CHAPTER II . THE ...
... force , we shall be less than Englishmen and Christians if we do not stamp the whole system of colonial usage towards the natives , with that general and indignant odium which must demolish it at once and for ever . CHAPTER II . THE ...
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... force , they were not perhaps the least formidable and de- structive on the whole , when employed against naked and timid Indians . All the caziques in the island , Guacanahari excepted , who retained an inviolable attachment to the ...
... force , they were not perhaps the least formidable and de- structive on the whole , when employed against naked and timid Indians . All the caziques in the island , Guacanahari excepted , who retained an inviolable attachment to the ...
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... force , against which , were we inclined to resist it , resistance would be a folly . We are all therefore at your mercy : but if you are men subject to mortality like ourselves , you cannot be unapprised that after this life there is ...
... force , against which , were we inclined to resist it , resistance would be a folly . We are all therefore at your mercy : but if you are men subject to mortality like ourselves , you cannot be unapprised that after this life there is ...
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Page 202 - And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
Page 399 - The white people had now found our country. Tidings were carried back and more came amongst us. Yet, we did not fear them. We took them to be friends. They called us brothers. We believed them and gave them a larger seat. At length, their numbers had greatly increased. They wanted more land; they wanted our country. Our eyes were opened and our minds became uneasy.
Page 22 - Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Page 202 - Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Page 202 - And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel ? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry : I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Page 29 - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Page 398 - Brother, listen to what we say. There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of the Indians.
Page 399 - We understand that your religion is written in a book. If it was intended for us as well as you, why has not the Great Spirit given to us, and not only to us, but why did he not give to our forefathers, the knowledge of that book, with the means of understanding it rightly? We only know what you tell us about it. How shall we know when to believe, being so often deceived by the white people?