| Benjamin Franklin - Almanacs, American - 1900 - 190 pages
...this, never to dig more than plow-deep." 61 Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America CAVAGES we call them, because their manners differ from ours,...so rude as to be without any rules of politeness, or none so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness. The Indian men, when young, are hunters... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...carefully observe this, never to dig more than plow-deep." KEMAEKS CONCERNING- THE SAVAGES OP NOETH AMERICA SAVAGES we call them, because their manners differ...so rude as to be without any rules of politeness, or none so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness. The Indian men, when young, are hunters... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 396 pages
...present of books I send by him, curious for the beauty of the impression. THE SAVAGES OF NORTH AMERICA Savages we call them, because their manners differ...we should find no people so rude as to be without rules of politeness ; nor any so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness. The Indian men, when... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 280 pages
...carefully observe this, never to dig more than plow-deep." EEMAEKS CONCERNING THE SAVAGES OF NORTH AMERICA SAVAGES we call them, because their manners differ...perfection of civility ; they think the same of theirs. jf erhaps if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality we should find no... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 pages
...carefully observe this, never to dig more than plow-deep." BEMARKS CONCERNING THE SAVAGES OF NORTH AMERICA SAVAGES we call them, because their manners differ...so rude as to be without any rules of politeness, or none so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness. The Indian men, when yonng, are hunters... | |
| William Lyon Phelps - American literature - 1923 - 210 pages
...important contribution to the literature of International Good-will, the only agency that can prevent war. "Savages we call them, because their Manners differ...Perfection of Civility; they think the same of theirs. . . . Having frequent Occasions to hold public Councils, they have acquired great Order and Decency... | |
| Indians of North America - 1942 - 636 pages
...races, and honest trading. In his "Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America," Franklin says, "Savages we call them because their manners differ...perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. Our laborious manner of life, compared with theirs, they esteem Slavic and base; and the learning on... | |
| Margaret Hodgen - History - 1964 - 532 pages
...heathen, said Benjamin Franklin many years later, "are nothing more strange to us than we are to them; savages we call them, because their manners differ...Perfection of Civility : they think the same of theirs."" And John Locke, after a powerful recital of paradoxes, swept all differences in traits and institutions... | |
| Wayne Franklin - History - 1989 - 328 pages
...Montaignesque renunciation of its own title, a quarrel with the very language of Euro- American understanding: "Savages we call them, because their Manners differ...Perfection of Civility; they think the same of theirs." And it goes on to detail, in its account of "A Swedish Minister" who visited "the Susquehanah Indians"... | |
| Reginald Laubin, Gladys Laubin - Social Science - 1989 - 584 pages
...statement, he called them "ignorant savages," but on another occasion he said, "We call them savages because their manners differ from ours, which we think...the perfection of civility. They think the same of theirs."6 The late Frank Speck, an outstanding student of the Iroquois and head of the Department of... | |
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