 | Peace - 1845 - 620 pages
...for which reason we have come unarmed. Our object is not to do injury, but to do good. We have met in the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage can be taken on either side, but all id to be openness, brotherhood and love ; while all are to be... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...serve them to the utmost of their power. It was not their custom to use hostile weapons against their fellow-creatures, for which, reason they had come...that no advantage was to be taken on either side, hut all was to be openness, brotherhood, and love." After these and other words, he unrolled the parchment,... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 860 pages
...them to the utmost of their power. It was not their custom to use hostile weapons against any of their fellow-creatures, for which reason they had come unarmed....provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. They were met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no unfair advantage was to be taken on... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - Trees - 1846 - 548 pages
...their custom to use hostile weapons against their fellow creatures, therefore came they to this treaty unarmed. Their object was not to do injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. They had met them on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage was to be taken... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1846 - 42 pages
...reason we have come unarmed. Our object is not to do injury, but to do good. We have met, then, in the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage can be taken on either side, but all is to be openness, brotherhood, and love ; while all are to be... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1846 - 434 pages
...justice of the Deity, tere it is : " The Great Spirit knows the in nermost thoughts of man ;" — " his object was not to do injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit." These are the expressions which constitute the appeal ; and, in Grahame's opinion, hey are equivalent... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1821 - 422 pages
...and his followers with the savage chiefs ; when, to recur again to his own inimitable words, " they met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage was taken on either side, but all was openness, brotherhood, and love." Montesquieu, with his usual brilliant... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 428 pages
...reason we have come unarmed. Our object is not to do injury, but to do good. We have met, then, in the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage can be taken on either side, but all is to be openness, brotherhood, and love ; while all are to be... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1852 - 574 pages
...hostile weapons against our fellow creatures, for which reason we have come unarmed. Our object is not to do injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. " We are met on the broad path-way of good faith and good will, so that no advantage is to be taken... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 612 pages
...serve them to the utmost of their power. It was not their custom to use hostile weapons against their fellow-creatures, for which reason they had come unarmed....were then met on the broad pathway of good faith and good-will, so that no advantage was to be taken on either side, but all was to be openness, brotherhood,... | |
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It was not their custom to use hostile weapons against their fellow-creatures, for which reason they had come unarmed. Their object was not to do injury and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. They... 
