 | Lydia Maria Child - Indians of North America - 1829 - 306 pages
...their looks, not of vengeance or submission ; but of hard necessity, which stifles both, which chokes all utterance, which has no aim or method. It is courage...Yet there lies not between us and them an impassable gulph. They know, and feel, that there is for them still one remove farther, not distant nor unseen.... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...the villages, and warriors, and youth ? The sachems and the tribes ? The hunters and their families ? They have perished. They are consumed. The wasting...for them, still one remove farther, not distant, nor unseen. It is to the general burial ground of their race. THE PILGRIM FATHERS. Pierpont. THE pilgrim... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - New York (N.Y.) - 1830 - 902 pages
...their looks, not of vengeance or submission, but of hard necessity, which stifles both — which chokes all utterance — which has no aim or method. It is courage absorbed in despair.* If such be the traces we may draw of Indian character, being ourselves the judges, what might it not... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...heed him not. They turn to take a last look of their deserted villages. They cast a last glance tyon the graves of their fathers. They shed no tears ;...They have passed the fatal stream. It shall never 7 be repassed by them, — no, never. Yet there lies not between us and them, an impassable gulf. They... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...their looks, not of vengeance or submission, but of hard necessity, which stifles both; which choaka all utterance; which has no aim or method. It is courage...passed the fatal stream. It shall never be repassed by them,—no, never. Yet there lies not between us and them, an impassable gulf. They know, and feel,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...of vengeance or submission ; but of hard necessity, which stifles both ; which choaks all V sorbed in despair. They linger but for a moment. Their look...never be repassed by them, — no, never. Yet there lie* not between us and them, an impassable gulf. They know, and feel, that there is for them, still... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...their looks, not of vengeance or submission ; but of hard necessity, which stifles both ; which chokes all utterance ; which has no aim or method. It is...for them still one remove farther, not distant, nor unseen. It is to the general burial-ground of their race. Reason as we may, it is impossible not to... | |
 | Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...their looks, not of vengeance or submission, but of hard necessity, which stifles both ; which chokes all utterance ; which has no aim or method. It is...know and feel that there is for them still one remove further, not distant, nor unseen. It is to the general burial ground of their race. XXIX. Mr CLAY'S... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...their looks, not of vengeance or submission ; but of hard necessity, which stifles both ; which chokes all utterance ; which has no aim or method. It is...between us and them an impassable gulf. They know, and fael, that there is for them still one remove farther, not distant nor unseen. It is to the general... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1837 - 396 pages
...Already the last feeble remnants of the race are preparing for their journey beyond the Mississippk I see them leave their miserable homes, the aged,...an impassable gulf. They know, and feel, that there ia for them still one remove farther, not distant, nor unseen. It is the general burial-ground of their... | |
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... upon the graves of their fathers. They shed no tears, they utter no cries, they heave no groans. There is something in their hearts which passes speech. There is something in their looks, not of vengeance or submission, but of hard necessity, which... 
