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... peace it has been our policy to establish “ almshouses " to train and educate savage paupers . We have purchased paint , beads , scalping - knives , to deck warriors , and have fed them in idleness at the agency . Around this agency and ...
... peace it has been our policy to establish “ almshouses " to train and educate savage paupers . We have purchased paint , beads , scalping - knives , to deck warriors , and have fed them in idleness at the agency . Around this agency and ...
Page ix
... Peace . There are Indian churches with Indian congre- gations , in which Indian clergy are telling the story of God's love in Jesus Christ our Saviour . Where once was only heard the med- icine - drum and the song of the scalp - dance ...
... Peace . There are Indian churches with Indian congre- gations , in which Indian clergy are telling the story of God's love in Jesus Christ our Saviour . Where once was only heard the med- icine - drum and the song of the scalp - dance ...
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... Peace , " as follows : " For it is by faith , ' saith Cicero , ' that not commonwealths only , but that grand society of nations is maintained . ' ' Take away this , ' saith Aristotle , and all human commerce fails . ' It is , therefore ...
... Peace , " as follows : " For it is by faith , ' saith Cicero , ' that not commonwealths only , but that grand society of nations is maintained . ' ' Take away this , ' saith Aristotle , and all human commerce fails . ' It is , therefore ...
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... peace , is deemed much more odious than to provoke a war by some new demand or aggression ; for the latter is simply injustice , but in the former case the party is guilty both of perfidy and injustice . " It is also said , with ...
... peace , is deemed much more odious than to provoke a war by some new demand or aggression ; for the latter is simply injustice , but in the former case the party is guilty both of perfidy and injustice . " It is also said , with ...
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... peace . They will say to an Indian , " My friend ; my brother ! " They will take him by the hand , and , at the same moment , destroy him . And so you ' ( he was addressing himself to the Christian Indians at Gnadenhütten , Pennsylva ...
... peace . They will say to an Indian , " My friend ; my brother ! " They will take him by the hand , and , at the same moment , destroy him . And so you ' ( he was addressing himself to the Christian Indians at Gnadenhütten , Pennsylva ...
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