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" I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state. "
Relics of Literature - Page 194
by Reuben Percy - 1823 - 400 pages
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 29

History - 1789 - 592 pages
...particular account of the Government of the Druzes, a People of Syria^-fnm the fame tcork 1^3 Remarkable Speech of Logan, a Mingo Chief, to Lord Dunmore, "when Governor of Virginia— from Mr. Jefferjon's Obfervations on Buffo/rs Remarks on the Indians of Not tb ¿imerica IS» The 'Story...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1799 - 352 pages
...inverted, xxiv. [131] — capitulation of York Town and the Britifli army, xxiv. [134] — the fpeech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to lord Dunmore, when governor of Virginia, with the circumftances which gave rife to it, xxix. 151. Voltaire ¡ Voltaire j the leader pf a clafs...
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With an Appendix Relative to the Murder of ...

Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...because jt is displayed chiefly in their own councils. Some, however, we have of very superior lustre. I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state. And, as a • XVIII. 14$ f Linn. Syft. Definition of a Man. testimony of their talents...
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Discourse Delivered Before the New-York Historical Society: At Their ...

DeWitt Clinton - Indians of North America - 1812 - 90 pages
...of the pale of the Six Nations. I fully subscribe to the eulogium of Mr. Jefferson, when he says, " I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes,...a single passage superior to the speech of Logan." But let it be remembered that Logan was a Mingo chief, the second son of Shikellemus, a celebrated...
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Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year ...

New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1814 - 558 pages
...out of the pale of the Six Nations. I fully subscribe to the eulogium of Mr. Jefferson, when he says, "I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...a single passage superior to the speech of Logan." But let it be remembered that Logan was a Mingo chief, the second son of Shikellemus, a celebrated...
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Sensibility: The Stranger, and Other Poems

W. C. Harvey - 1818 - 350 pages
...described in the following extract from Winterbotliam's History of America, vol. ip 133, 134. " We may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and...Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when Governor of the state of Virginia. The story is as follows ; of which, and of the speech, the authenticity is unquestionable....
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The History of North and South America: From Its Discovery to ..., Volumes 1-2

Richard Snowden - America - 1819 - 324 pages
...example?, because it is chieffy displayed in their own councils. One, however, we have of superior lustre: the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of Virginia, at the close of a war in which the Shawanese, Mingoes, and Delaufcres were united. The Indians were...
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Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North ..., Volume 1

James Buchanan - Indian mythology - 1824 - 350 pages
...because it is displayed chiefly in their own Councils. Some we have, however, of very superior lustre. I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...Logan, a Mingo Chief, to Lord Dunmore, when Governor of this state;* and as a testimony of their talents in this line, I beg leave to introduce it, first stating...
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Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North ..., Volume 2

James Buchanan - Indian mythology - 1824 - 164 pages
...because it is displayed chiefly in their own Councils. Some we have, however, of very superior lustre. I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...Logan, a Mingo Chief, to Lord Dunmore, when Governor of this state;* and as a testimony of their talents in this line, I begleave to introduce it, first stating...
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A Journal of a Mission to the Indians of the British Provinces, of New ...

John West - Canada - 1827 - 142 pages
...lest delay should burn your hearts any longer, I give you the cool refreshing word, Away /" And " we may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and...eminent orator, (if Europe has furnished more eminent,)" says Jefferson, in his Notes on the State of Virginia, " to produce a single passage superior to the...
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