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Page 319 - in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not fparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop ot my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have
Page 319 - I had even thought to have lived with you, but for the injuries of one man. Colonel Crefap, the Lift I'pring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not fparing even
Page 319 - man to fay 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
Page 319 - remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they
Page 319 - the following fpeech, to be delivered to Lord Dunmore : " I appeal to any white man to fay if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he
Page 187 - cartarum, whereby the great charter is directed to be allowed as the common law ; all judgments contrary to it are declared void ; copies of it are ordered to be fent to all cathedral churches,
Page 75 - a page of them. And yet in reality, upon a nearer acquaintance, they would have found nothing very formidable in the language ; which differs in its grammar and orthography as much from the modern French, as the diction of Chaucer and Gower does from that of Addifon and Pope. Befides, as the
Page 188 - as there is no other known method of compulfion, or of abridging man's natural free-will, but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of thefe important rights, the prefervation of thefe inviolate may juftly be faid to include the prefervation of our civil immunities in their largeft and moft
Page 294 - I think, it is our way, If we will keep in favour with the king To be her men, and wear her livery.
Page 228 - How oft when men are at the point of death, Have they been merry ? which their keepers call