A View of the American Indians, Their General Character, Customs, Language, Public Festivals, Religious Rites, and Traditions: Shewing Them to be the Descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel. The Language of Prophecy Conerning Them, and the Course by which They Travelled from Media Into Americaauthor, and sold, 1828 - 185 páginas |
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... Deut . 4. 23. " Take heed to your- selves lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God which he made with you , to make you a graven image or the likeness of any thing which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee . For the Lord thy ...
... Deut . 4. 23. " Take heed to your- selves lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God which he made with you , to make you a graven image or the likeness of any thing which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee . For the Lord thy ...
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... Deut . 23. 9. & c . A friend just returned from Canada , brought with him a string of short pieces of an extremely bitter root which was given him as a matter of great favor by a chief with whom he was intimate . He described this root ...
... Deut . 23. 9. & c . A friend just returned from Canada , brought with him a string of short pieces of an extremely bitter root which was given him as a matter of great favor by a chief with whom he was intimate . He described this root ...
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... Deut , 25 , 5 . The Indian customs resemble this . A widow is bound by a strict law or custom to mourn the death of her husband for the space of three or four years . But if it be known that the elder brother of her deceased husband has ...
... Deut , 25 , 5 . The Indian customs resemble this . A widow is bound by a strict law or custom to mourn the death of her husband for the space of three or four years . But if it be known that the elder brother of her deceased husband has ...
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... Deut . 24 , 3 . In many places in which these Indians are settled , there are found among them places of refuge to which a crimi- nal and even a captive may fly , and be safe from the avenger of blood if he can but enter it . Mr ...
... Deut . 24 , 3 . In many places in which these Indians are settled , there are found among them places of refuge to which a crimi- nal and even a captive may fly , and be safe from the avenger of blood if he can but enter it . Mr ...
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... Deut . 19 , 2 . The Jewish law , Num . 35. 18. commanded that the murderer shall be put to death . The Avenger of blood shall slay the murderer ; when he meeteth him , he shall slay him - but the same severe law provided a chance of ...
... Deut . 19 , 2 . The Jewish law , Num . 35. 18. commanded that the murderer shall be put to death . The Avenger of blood shall slay the murderer ; when he meeteth him , he shall slay him - but the same severe law provided a chance of ...
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A View of the American Indians: Their General Character, Customs, Language ... Israel Worsley Visualização integral - 1828 |
A View of the American Indians: Their General Character, Customs, Language ... Israel Worsley Visualização integral - 1828 |
A View of the American Indians: Their General Character, Customs, Language ... Israel Worsley Visualização integral - 1828 |
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Página 17 - O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger ! and the staff in their hand is mine indignation : I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Página 20 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, That I will send a famine in the land, Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the Lord : And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, They shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
Página 16 - And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
Página 16 - I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Página 109 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 24 - Doubtless thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not : thou, 0 LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer ; thy Name is from everlasting.
Página 17 - And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Página 66 - In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon...
Página 24 - For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
Página 90 - But this is not all; they agree in rites; they reckon by moons; they offer their first fruits; they have a kind of feast of tabernacles; they are said to lay their altar upon twelve stones; their mourning a year; customs of women, with many other things that do not now occur.