 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1897 - 610 pages
...thanke God, I like so well to be heer, as I do not repent my comingo ; and if I were to come againe I would not have altered my course, though I had foreseen all these Afflictions. I never fared better in my life, never slept better, never had more content of minde, w"* comes meerly of the... | |
 | John Winthrop - 1825 - 456 pages
...I thank God, I like so well to be here, as I do not repent my coming ; and if I were to come again, I would not have altered my course, though I had foreseen all these afflictions. I never fared better in my life, never slept better, never had more content of mind, which comes merely of... | |
 | John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1825 - 456 pages
...I thank God, I like so well to be here, as I do not repent my coming ; and if I were to come again, I would not have altered my course, though I had foreseen all these afflictions. I never fared better in my life, never slept better, never had more content of mind, which comes merely of... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1834 - 530 pages
...was an hour of triumph; such as is never ~~-~ witnessed in more tranquil seasons; just as there 1630. can b e no gorgeous sunset, but when the vapors of...Massachusetts. In the two following years the colony had not even the comfort of receiving large accessions. In 1631 ninety only came over; a smaller number... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 532 pages
...hour of triumph; such as is never — -v^- witnessed in more tranquil seasons; just as there 1630. can be no gorgeous sunset, but when the vapors of...Massachusetts. In the two following years the colony had not even the comfort of receiving large accessions. In 1631 ninety only came over ; a smaller number... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 506 pages
...humanity* while a sincere religiou CHAP. faith kept guard against despondency and weakness. —•v^~ Not a hurried line, not a trace of repining, appears...had more content of mind." Such were the scenes in Ae infant settlements of Massachusetts. In the two following years, the colony CHAP. had not even the... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1841 - 368 pages
...triumph. Even children caught the spirit of the place, awaited their last hours in tranquil confidence, and went to the grave full of immortality. The survivors...Massachusetts. In the two following years, the colony had not even the comfort of receiving large accessions. In 1631, ninety only came over — a smaller... | |
 | William Ives Budington - Boston (Mass.) - 1845 - 278 pages
...I thank God I like so well to be here, as I do not repent my coming ; and if I were to come again, I would not have altered my course, though I had foreseen all these afflictions. I never fared better in my life, never slept better, never had more content of mind, which comes merely of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...whom, on account of her pregnancy, he had left in England — " We here enjoy God and Jesus Christ, and is not this enough ? I thank God, I like so well...these afflictions. I never had more content of mind." The stern fanaticism which dictated this language, was not likely to be checked in its course by the... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1847 - 406 pages
...thank God, I like so well to be here that I do not repent my coming ; and if I were to come again, I would not have altered my course, though I had foreseen all these afflictions. * * I praise God, we have many occasions of comfort here, and do hope that our days of affliction will soon... | |
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We here enjoy God and Jesus Christ," wrote Winthrop to his wife, whom pregnancy had detained in England, " and is not this enough? I thank God I like so well to be here, as I do not repent my coming. I would not have altered my course, though I had foreseen... 
