 Indian character, customs, and principles; habituated to the hunting life; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description of objects already possessed; honest, disinterested, liberal,...  History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to ... - Page xiiby Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Nicholas Biddle - 1814Full view - About this book
 | A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...discipline ; intimate with the Indian character, customs, and princi pies; habituated to the hunting life; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and...country, against losing time in the description of object* already possesed ; honest, disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding, and a fidelity to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin French - United States - 1825 - 378 pages
...understanding, and an intimate knowledge of the Indian character, their customs, and principles, and for a fidelity to truth so scrupulous, that whatever he should report would be as 25 certain as if seen by himself, he did not hesitate to 'confide the enterprise to him as one every... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 608 pages
...habituated to the hunting life ; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his ovvn country, against losing time in the description of...understanding, and a fidelity to truth so scrupulous, unit whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves : with all these qualifications,... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 608 pages
...discipline ; intimate with the Indian character, customs, and principles ; habituated to the hunting life ; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and...report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves." The event well justified the propriety of the selection. The exploring party, exclusive of a small... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pages
...Indian character, customs, and principles; habituated to the hunting life; guarded, by exact dbseryation of the vegetables and animals of his own country,...report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves." The event well justified the propriety of the selection. The exploring party, exclusive of a small... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...discipline ; intimate with the Indian character, customs, and principles ; habituated to the hunting life ; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and...disinterested, liberal, of sound understanding, and fidelity to truth so scrupulous, that whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by ourselves... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1840 - 212 pages
...understanding, and an intimate knowledge of the Indian character, their customs, and principles, and for a fidelity to truth so scrupulous, that whatever he should report would be as certain as if seen by himself, he did not hesitate to confide the enterprise to him as one every way qualified to conduct... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Best books - 1843 - 352 pages
...impossibilities could divert from its direction; intimate with the Indian character, customs, and principles ; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and...in the description of objects already possessed," &c., &c. — Enc. Am. 2 vols. 18mo, 90 cents, New- York. Humboldfs Narrative. This work has justly... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 346 pages
...impossibilities could divert from its direction; intimate with the Indian character, customs, and principles ; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and...in the description of objects already possessed," &c., &c. — Enc. Am. 2 vols. 18mo, 90 cents, New- York. Humboldt's Narrative. This work has justly... | |
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