 There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought...  The American Preceptor - Side 34av Caleb Bingham - 1829Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 332 sider
...the last spring, in cold blood, murdered all the relations of Logan, even my women and children. " There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of...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 - 1837 - 360 sider
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1837 - 328 sider
...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... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1837 - 282 sider
...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... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 sider
...blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of...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 - 1997 - 846 sider
...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 - 1994 - 376 sider
...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... | |
 | Paula Gunn Allen - 1999 - 278 sider
...blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me my revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country,... | |
 | Philip Joseph Deloria - 1998 - 268 sider
...Joseph Doddridge's play Logan: The Last of the Race of Shikellemus, Chief of the Cayuga Nation (1823): "There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. Who is there to mourn for Logan?— Not one."60 The Indian death speech brings us full circle to The... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 sider
...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...the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not 504 turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? - Not one. Before we condemn... | |
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