... and discipline, intimate with the Indian character, customs and principles. Habituated to the hunting life, guarded by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description of objects already possessed,... The Pacific Slope and Alaska - Page 46by Joseph Schafer - 1904 - 442 pagesFull view - About this book
| Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Nicholas Biddle - Columbia River - 1814 - 518 pages
...Indian character, customs, and principles; habituated to the hunting lire; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country,...report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves; with all these qualifications, as if selected and implanted by nature in one body for this express... | |
| A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description of object* already possesed ; honest, disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding,...report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves ; with all these qualifications, as if selected and implanted by nature in one body for this express... | |
| Benjamin Franklin French - United States - 1825 - 378 pages
...understanding, and an intimate knowledge of the Indian character, their customs, and principles, and for a fidelity to truth so scrupulous, that whatever he should report would be as 25 certain as if seen by himself, he did not hesitate to 'confide the enterprise to him as one every... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 608 pages
...honest, disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding, and a fidelity to truth so scrupulous, unit whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves : with all these qualifications, as if selected and implanted by nature, in one body, for this express... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 608 pages
...Indian character, customs and principles; habituated to the hunting lite; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country,...report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves: with all these qualifications, as if selected and implanted by nature, in one body, for this express... | |
| 1838 - 1050 pages
...description of objects already possessed ; honest, disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding, and fidelity to truth so scrupulous, that whatever he...report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves ; — with all these qualifications, as if selected and implanted by nature in one body for this express... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1840 - 212 pages
...understanding, and an intimate knowledge of the Indian character, their customs, and principles, and for a fidelity to truth so scrupulous, that whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by himself, he did not hesitate to confide the enterprise to him as one every way qualified to conduct... | |
| Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botany - 1841 - 488 pages
...Indian character, customs, and principles; habituated to the hunting life; guarded by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country,...report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves : with all these qualifications, as if selected and implanted by nature in one body for this express... | |
| Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1841 - 490 pages
...principles ; liabituated to the hunting life ; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables ami animals of his own country, against losing time in...report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves : with all these qualifications, as if selected and implanted by nature, in one body, for this express... | |
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