 | Thomas Campbell - Bookbinding - 1837 - 328 pages
...murdered all the relations of Logan, even my women and children. " There runs not a drop of my Mood in the veins of any living creature : — this called on me for revenge. I have fought for it. I have killed many. I have fully glutted my vengeance. — For my country I rejoice... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Bookbinding - 1837 - 360 pages
...will perceive that I have attempted to paraphrase its concluding and most striking expression: — " There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature." The similar salutation of the fictitious personage in my story, and the real Indian orator, makes it... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Clothing and dress - 1837 - 282 pages
...eloquent son of the American forests, inquires in agony, " Who is there to mourn for Logan ? Not one. There runs not a drop of my blood, in the veins of any living creature." The Idumean, when the destroying angel had made " desolate all his company," — acknowledged, " The... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1852 - 670 pages
...the bat spring, in cold blood and unprovoked, cut off all the rela-tions of Logan, not eparing even ccordingly be-gan to tell him fairy tales, and odd stories, which made him l human creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it. I nave killed many. I have fully glutted... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 pages
...man." I had even thought to have lived with you, but for the injuries of one man, Colonel Cressap, who last spring, in cold blood and unprovoked, murdered...killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my countrymen I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 846 pages
...agony for all concerned ("Logan never felt fear"). Most memorable of all, he disappears without a trace ("There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. . . . Who is there to mourn for Logan? - Not one"). The truly noble savage does not complicate his... | |
 | D. M. R. Bentley - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 376 pages
...Logan's famous speech to the Governor of Virginia as recorded by Jefferson and quoted by Thomas Campbell ("'there runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature ... Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life" [93-94] ): "But since the... | |
 | Charles Moore - History - 1996 - 556 pages
...white men.' I had even thought to have lived with you, but for the injuries of one man. Colonel Cresap, last spring, in cold blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing ray women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This... | |
 | Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 188 pages
...friend of white men." I had even thought to have lived with you, but for the injuries of one man. Col. Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not sparing even my i. Jefferson, 62-63. This account is a revised version, which Jefferson penned after... | |
 | Teresa A. Goddu - African Americans in literature - 1997 - 242 pages
...friend of white men." I had even thought to have lived with you, but for the injuries of one man. Col. Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not sparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature.... | |
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There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. 
