 | William Martin Beauchamp - Indians - 1892 - 180 pages
...visited the governor of Virginia during the revolution, on matters of business, the governor asked them some questions relative to their country, and...Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an at titude of oratoiy. and with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject, infoimed... | |
 | William Martin Beauchamp - Indians - 1892 - 190 pages
...visited the governor of Virginia during the revolution, on matters of business, the governor asked them some questions relative to their country, and...Salt-licks, on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himrelf into an attitude of oratoiy, and with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his... | |
 | George W. Lindsay, Charles C. Conley, Charles H. Litchman - Fraternal organizations - 1893 - 664 pages
...about the salt licks on the Ohio River. " The chief speaker," continues our author, Mr. Jefferson, "immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory,...to what he conceived the elevation of his subject," began and repeated as follows : " In ancient times, a herd of these tremendous animals came to the... | |
 | Kentucky - 1898 - 278 pages
...Revolution on matters of business, after these had been discussed and settled in council the Governor asked them some questions relative to their country, and,...heard of the animal whose bones were found at the Salt Licks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and... | |
 | Josiah Stoddard Johnston - Indians of North America - 1898 - 266 pages
...B. on matters of business, after these had been discussed and settled in council the Governor asked them some questions relative to their country, and,...heard of the animal whose bones were found at the Salt Licks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1893 - 924 pages
...Revolution, on matten* of business, after these had been discussed and settled in council, the governor asked them some questions relative to their country, and...others, what they knew or had heard of the animal whose hones were found at the Saltlicks on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1904 - 412 pages
...Revolution, on matters of business, after these had been discussed and settled in council, the governor asked them some questions relative to their country, and...animal whose bones were found at the salt-licks on the 373 Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and, with a pomp... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1904 - 574 pages
...revolution, on matters of business, after these had been discussed and settled in council, the governor asked them some questions relative to their country, and...the animal whose bones were found at the Saltlicks, 1 "Indian corn" is omitted in edition of 1853. on the Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself... | |
 | Joseph Schafer - Northwest Passage - 1908 - 44 pages
...revolution, on matters of business, after these had been discussed and settled in council, the Governor asked them some questions relative to their country, and...Ohio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself in an attitude of oratory, etc." that, after being transferred through several tribes, from one to... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1914 - 734 pages
...Revolution, on matters of busin«w, after these had been discussed and settled in council, the governor asked them some questions relative to their country, and,...animal whose bones were found at the Saltlicks on thOhio. Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and, with a pomp suited... | |
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Their chief speaker immediately put himself into an attitude of oratory, and, with a pomp suited to what he conceived the elevation of his subject... 
