 | Kate Dickinson Sweetser - Biography - 1913 - 216 pages
...VVampanoag's nail shall be delivered upl" When told that he must die, he made this memorable remark, "I like it well; I shall die before my heart is soft or I have said anything unworthy of myself." "Because of his refusal to surrender his friends to certain... | |
 | Katharine Pyle - Newport (R.I.) - 1914 - 224 pages
...make his people submit to the English, but this he refused to do. He was not afraid to die. He said: "I like it well; I shall die before my heart is soft, or I have said anything unworthy of myself." Philip, too, no longer cared to live. His tribe was scattered.... | |
 | Edwin Legrand Sabin - Indians of North America - 1918 - 376 pages
...Oneka, son of Uncas. His father killed my father. Let Oneka kill me. He is a sachem." "You must die." "I like it well. I shall die before my heart is soft, or I have said anything of which Canonchet shall be ashamed." Even his enemies admired him. The English... | |
 | Thomas Williams Bicknell - Rhode Island - 1920 - 478 pages
...of the love and fidelity of the Indian allies. Canonchet's last words on learning his sentence were, "I like it well. I shall die before my heart is soft or I have spoken unworthy words." The historian Hubbard calls Canonchet "a most perfidious villain," "a... | |
 | Samuel Gardner Drake - Social Science - 2001 - 469 pages
...of our own times says, "It may be pleasing to the reader to be informed" of the fate of Nanuntenoo! When it was announced to the noble chief that he must...SOFT, OR HAVE SAID ANY THING UNWORTHY OF MYSELF." With Nanuntenoo, fell into the hands of the English 43 others. I The author of the anonymous "Letters to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1809 - 498 pages
...peace, but he refused : when informed that his death, in consequence, was determined, his answer was, ' I like it well ; I shall die before my heart is soft, or I shall have Spoken any thing unworthy of myself.' The most impressive circumstance in the course of... | |
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I LIKE IT WELL; I SHALL DIE BEFORE MY HEART IS SOFT, OR HAVE SAID ANY THING UNWORTHY OF MYSELF. 
