Colonial Prose and Poetry ...: Pioneer literatureWilliam Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1901 - American literature |
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... liberty within four days . He much delighted in Opechan Comough's relation of what I had described to him , and oft examined me upon the same . He asked me the cause of our coming . I told him being in fight with the Spaniards , our ...
... liberty within four days . He much delighted in Opechan Comough's relation of what I had described to him , and oft examined me upon the same . He asked me the cause of our coming . I told him being in fight with the Spaniards , our ...
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... liberty affords us that freely , which in England we want , or it costeth us dearly . What pleasure can be more , than ( being tired with any occasion a - shore in planting vines , fruits , or herbs , in contriving their own grounds ...
... liberty affords us that freely , which in England we want , or it costeth us dearly . What pleasure can be more , than ( being tired with any occasion a - shore in planting vines , fruits , or herbs , in contriving their own grounds ...
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... liberty ; for none had power to command them , the patent they had being for Virginia , and not for New England , which belonged to another Government , with which the Virginia Company had nothing to do . And partly that such an act by ...
... liberty ; for none had power to command them , the patent they had being for Virginia , and not for New England , which belonged to another Government , with which the Virginia Company had nothing to do . And partly that such an act by ...
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... liberty that way , yet I may say of myself , as once Nehemiah did in another case , " Shall such a man as I lie ? " No , verily . It becometh not a preacher of truth to be a writer of falsehood in any degree ; and therefore I have been ...
... liberty that way , yet I may say of myself , as once Nehemiah did in another case , " Shall such a man as I lie ? " No , verily . It becometh not a preacher of truth to be a writer of falsehood in any degree ; and therefore I have been ...
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... liberty , etc. , ( though intended chiefly for revoking the sentence given against Mr. Wheelwright , ) would have spent all the day in debate , etc .; but yet the governor and those of that party would not proceed to election , ex- cept ...
... liberty , etc. , ( though intended chiefly for revoking the sentence given against Mr. Wheelwright , ) would have spent all the day in debate , etc .; but yet the governor and those of that party would not proceed to election , ex- cept ...
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Page 282 - When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth, though old, still clad in green, The stones and trees insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; If winter come, and greenness then do fade, A spring returns, and they more youthful made. But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.
Page 13 - ... being ready with their clubs, to beat out his brains, Pocahontas, the king's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death: whereat the emperor was contented he should live to make him hatchets, and her bells, beads, and copper; for they thought him as well of all occupations as themselves.
Page 40 - ... occasioned partly by the discontented and mutinous speeches that some of the strangers amongst them had let fall from them in the ship — That when they came a shore they would use their owne libertie; for none had power to command them...
Page 101 - Mr. Hopkins, the governor of Hartford upon Connecticut, came to Boston, and brought his wife with him (a godly young woman, and of special parts), who was fallen into a sad infirmity, the loss of her understanding and reason...
Page 252 - mend his native country, lamentably tattered both in the upper-leather and sole, with all the honest stitches he can take ; and as willing never to be paid for his work by old English wonted pay. It is his trade to patch all the year long gratis. Therefore I pray gentlemen keep your purses. By Theodore de la Guard. ' In rebus arduis ac tenui spe, fortissima quaeque consilia tutissima sunt.
Page 12 - At last they brought him to Meronocomoco, where was Powhatan, their emperor. Here more than two hundred of those grim courtiers stood wondering at him, as he had been a monster, till Powhatan and his train had put themselves in their greatest braveries.
Page xiii - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 282 - I heard the merry grashopper then sing. The black clad Cricket, bear a second part. They kept one tune, and plaid on the same string. Seeming to glory in their little Art.
Page 139 - Should not Christians have more mercy and compassion ? But I would refer you to David's war. When a people is grown to such a height of blood, and sin against God and man...
Page 40 - James, by ye grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc, & Ireland king, defender of ye faith, &c., haveing undertaken, for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith, and honour of our king & countrie...