 | 1863 - 306 pages
...speech which will render his name famous for many a century. In alluding to it, Mr. Jefferson, says : "I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...a single passage superior to the speech of Logan." • In view of the foregoing facts concerning the character and celebrity of Logan, it has seemed proper... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - 1869 - 610 pages
...joyous conviviality.— J. ADAMS. INDIAN SPEECHES. ELOQUENT SPEECH OF LOGAN, CHIEF OF THE MINGOES. I MAY challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state. And, 15 as a testimony of their talents in this line, I beg leave to introduce it, first stating* the incidents... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 pages
...messenger, the following speech to be delivered to Lord Dunmore. 3. Of this speech Jeflerson says : — " I may challenge the •whole orations of Demosthenes...single passage superior to the speech of Logan, a Miugo chief." 4. " I appeal to any white man to say if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1875 - 958 pages
...written, of this powerful address ot Logan, " I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Gcero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished...a single passage superior to the speech of Logan." The poet Campbell, in his Gertrude of Wyoming, has thus beautifully verified its sentiments : " He... | |
 | 1875 - 806 pages
...language concerning it : "I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero to pronounce a single passage superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo Chief, to Lord Dunmore." The speech immediately became immensely popular ; was copied into various tongues, and was 'published... | |
 | Neville B. Craig - 1876 - 598 pages
...because it is displayed chiefly in their own councils. Some, however, we have of very superior lustre. I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished any more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to lord... | |
 | Neville B. Craig - 1876 - 598 pages
...because it is displayed chiefly in their own councils. Some, however, we have of very superior lustre. I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes...Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe bas tarnished any more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - 1880 - 800 pages
...the whole orations of Demostheiict and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has fumished more eminent, to produce a single passage superior to the speech of .Logan.' But 'et it be remembered that Logan was a Mingo chief," that is, an Iroquois. The time is not far distant,... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - 1882 - 420 pages
...regarded the speech as one of the most eloquent passages in the English language, and said of it, " I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orators, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage superior to it." It was... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 560 pages
...orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and, indeed, of any more eminent orators, if Europe, or the world, has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, delivered to Lord Dunmore, when governor of Virginia. As a testimony of Indian talents in this line,... | |
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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... 
