 A knowledge of these several languages would be the most certain evidence of their derivation which could be produced. In fact it is the best proof of the affinity of nations which ever can be referred to.  The Indian and Antiquities of America - Page 446by Barnard Shipp - 1897 - 451 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Books and bookselling - 1787 - 530 pages
...be the molt certain evidence of their derivation which could be produced. In fací, it is the belt proof of the affinity of nations which ever can be referred to. How many ages have elapfed fince the Engfifh, the Dutch, the Germans, the Swifs, the Norwegians, Danes, and Swedes, have... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Virginia - 1801 - 402 pages
...•would be the mofl certain evidence of then- derivation which could be produced. In faâ, it is the beft proof of the affinity of nations which ever can be referred to. How many ages have elapied fince the Engliih, the Dutch, the Germans, the Swifs the Norwegians, Danes and Swedes have... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Indians of North America - 1803 - 388 pages
...languages would be the most certain evi- j dence of their derivation which coulcl be pro- ( duced. In facl, it is the best proof of the affinity of nations which...can be referred to. How many ages have elapsed since 'he English^ the Dutch", the Germans, the Swiss, the Norwegians, Danes and Swedes have separated from... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 448 pages
...have elapsed,' says an elegant writer and distinguished naturalist, 'since the English, the Duteh, the Germans, the Swiss, the Norwegians, Danes and Swedes have separated from their common stock ? And yet how many more must elapse before the proofs of their common origin, which exist io their... | |
 | English literature - 1787 - 564 pages
...molt certain evidence of their derivation which could be produced." — This, in fr.it, is the bell proof of the affinity of nations which ever can be referred to ; and, as he again remarks, " How many ages have elapled llnce the Englilh, the Dutch, the Germans,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 632 pages
...Greenlanders, and these probably from some of the northern parts of the old continent. A knowledge of their several languages would be the most . certain evidence...ages have elapsed since the English, the Dutch, the Germane, the Swiss, the Norwegians, Danes and Swedes have separated from their common stock ? Yet how... | |
 | Alexander Scott Withers - Indians - 1895 - 572 pages
...resemblance, and from identity of language, must be derived from the Greenlanders. A knowledge of their several languages would be the most certain evidence...affinity of nations, which ever can be referred to." After regretting that so many of the Indian tribes have been suffered to perish, without our having... | |
 | America - 1901 - 906 pages
...the most certain evidence of their deriviation which could be produced; in fact it is the best r.roof of the affinity of nations which ever • can be referred...common stock? Yet, how many more must elapse before the projfs of their com non origin which exists in their several languages, will disappear? It is to be... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1902 - 408 pages
...the most certain evidence of their deriviation which could be produced; in fact it is the best f.roof of the affinity of nations which ever can be referred...how many more must elapse before the proofs of their conrnon origin which exists in their several languages, will disappear? It is to be lamented then,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1904 - 574 pages
...and these probably from some of the northern parts of the old continent. A knowledge of their [181] several languages would be the most certain evidence...Swiss, the Norwegians, Danes and Swedes have separated fuls of men, from an antiquity so remote that no data we possess will enable us to calculate it " A... | |
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