 | Joseph Story - 1828 - 98 páginas
...which may be urged to excuse their own atrocities ; much in their characters, which betrays us into an involuntary admiration. What can be more melancholy...away. We hear the rustling of their footsteps, like 74 that of the withered leaves of autumn, and they are gone for ever. They pass mournfully by us, and... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1829 - 306 páginas
...admiration. What can be more melancholy than their history. Every where at approach of the white men they fade away. We hear the rustling of their footsteps, like that of the withered leaves of autumn, and they are gone for ever. They pass mournfully by us, and they return no more. Two centuries ago, the... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1830 - 902 páginas
...spot — though born, In transatlantic climes, and thither brought, By paths as covert as the birth of thought !" THERE is in the fate of these unfortunate...By a law of their nature, they seem destined to a slo\v but sure extinction. Every where at the approach of the white man, they fade away. We hear the... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 páginas
...which may be urged to excuse their own atrocities ; much in their characters, which betrays us into an involuntary admiration. What can be more melancholy...footsteps, like that of the withered leaves of autumn, and they are gone for ever. They pass mournfully by us, and they return no more. Two centuries ago, the... | |
 | 1837 - 396 páginas
...which may be urged to excuse their own atrocities ; much in their characters, which betrays us into an involuntary admiration. What can be more melancholy...footsteps, like that of the withered leaves of autumn, and they are gone for ever. They pass mournfully by us, and they return no more. Two centuries ago, the... | |
 | James Otto Lewis - 1839 - 98 páginas
...characters, which betrays us into an involuntary admiration. What can be more melancholy than their picture ? By a law of their nature, they seem destined to a slow but sure extinction. Everywhere, at the approach of the white man, they fade away. We hear the rustling of their footsteps,... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 páginas
...which may be urged to excuse their own atrocities; much in their characters, which betrays us into an involuntary admiration. What can be more melancholy...to a slow, but sure extinction. Every where, at the approacli of the white man, they fade away. We hear the rustling of their footsteps, like that of the... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1841 - 416 páginas
...characters, which betrays us into an involuntary admiration. What can be more melancholy than their history 1 By a law of their nature, they seem destined to a...footsteps, like that of the withered leaves of autumn, and they are gone forever. They pass mournfully by us, and they return no more. Two centuries ago, the... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 páginas
...which may be urged to excuse their own atrocities ; much in their characters, which betrays us into an involuntary admiration. What can be more melancholy...footsteps, like that of the withered leaves of autumn, and they are gone for ever. They pas,i mournfully by us, and they return no more. 2. Two centuries ago,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 páginas
...which may be urged to excuse their own atrocities; much in their characters, 5 which betrays us into an involuntary admiration. What can be more melancholy...they seem destined to a slow, but sure extinction. Everywhere, at the approach of the white man, they fade away. We hear the rustling of their footsteps,... | |
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There is, indeed, in the fate of these unfortunate beings, much to awaken our sympathy, and much to disturb the sobriety of our judgment ; much, which may be urged to excuse their own atrocities ; much in their characters, which betrays us into an involuntary... 
