 | James Anderson - Agriculture - 1800 - 632 pages
...government of Virginia and the Six Nations. After the principal businefs was settled, the commifsioners from Virginia acquainted the Indians by a speech, that there was at Williamsburg a college, with a fund for educating Indian youth ; and that if the Six Nations would... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...they regard as frivolous and useless. An instance of this kind occurred at the treaty ofLancasler, in Pennsylvania, anno 1744, between the government...acquainted the Indians by a speech, that there was at Williamsburg a college, with a fund, for educating Indian youth ; and that if the chiefs of the Six... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...as frivolous and useless. An instance of this occurred at the treaty of Lancaster, in Pensylvania, anno 1744, between the government of Virginia and...acquainted the Indians by a speech, that there was at Williamsburg a college, with a fund, for educating Indian youth ; and that if the chiefs of the Six... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...as frivolous and useless. An instance of this occurred at the treaty of Lancaster, in Pensylvania, anno 1744, between the government of Virginia and...commissioners from Virginia acquainted the Indians bj a speech, that there was at Williamsburg a college, with a fund, for educating Indian youth ; and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...value ourselves they regard as frivolous and useless. An instance of this occurred at the treaty «f Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, anno 1744, between the...acquainted the Indians by a speech, that there was at Williamsburg a college, with a fund, for educating Indian youth, and that if the chiefs of the Six... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1809 - 466 pages
...in order were published in separate pamphlets ^n England, in fhe year 1784, and afterwards, in 1787, principal business was settled, the commissioners...acquainted the Indians by a speech, that there was at Williamsburg a college, with a fund, for educating Indian youth ; and that if the chiefs of the Six... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...honorable. Having few artificial wants, thty have abundance of leisure for improvement by conversation. Our laborious manner of life, compared with theirs, they...acquainted the Indians by a speech, that there was at Williamsburg a college, with a fund, for educating Indian youth, and that if the chiefs of the Six... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...treaty of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, anno 1744, between the government of Virginia and the Six Nation". After the principal business was settled, the commissioners...acquainted the Indians by a speech, that there was at Williamsburg a college, with a fund, for educating Indian youth, and that if the chiefs of the Six... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...learning on which we value ourselves, they regard as frivolous and useless. An instance of this kind occurred at the treaty of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania,...acquainted the Indians by a speech, that there was at Williamsburg a college, with a fund, for educating Indian youth ; and that if the chiefs of the Six... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1815 - 336 pages
...1744, between the government of Virginia and the Six nations. After the principal business was setted, the commissioners from Virginia acquainted the Indians by a speech, that there was at Williamsburg a college, with a fund, for educating Indian youth; and that if the chiefs of the Six... | |
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Our laborious manner of life, compared with theirs, they esteem slavish and base ; and the learning on which we value ourselves they regard as frivolous and useless. An instance of this occurred at the treaty of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, anno 1744,... 
