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... Thought - The New World - Career of Maritime Discovery - The Pilgrim Council- The Debate - The Argument of the Doubters - The Apostles of the Future - Ho , for America - The Decision CHAPTER IV . 29 52 Pilgrim Prayers- " Where shall we ...
... Thought - The New World - Career of Maritime Discovery - The Pilgrim Council- The Debate - The Argument of the Doubters - The Apostles of the Future - Ho , for America - The Decision CHAPTER IV . 29 52 Pilgrim Prayers- " Where shall we ...
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... thought they could discern a ray of light on the sullen horizon which gloomed upon them . James * Fuller , Ch . Hist . , vol . 3. Rymer's Foedera , vol . 16 , p . 694 . † Goodrich , Ch . Hist . don , etc. Neale , History of the Puritans ...
... thought they could discern a ray of light on the sullen horizon which gloomed upon them . James * Fuller , Ch . Hist . , vol . 3. Rymer's Foedera , vol . 16 , p . 694 . † Goodrich , Ch . Hist . don , etc. Neale , History of the Puritans ...
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... thoughts . The language of the Dutch had never become pleasantly familiar.t Frequently ' they saw poverty coming on them like an armed man . " Many of their little band were taken from them by death . " Grave mistress Experience hav- 66 ...
... thoughts . The language of the Dutch had never become pleasantly familiar.t Frequently ' they saw poverty coming on them like an armed man . " Many of their little band were taken from them by death . " Grave mistress Experience hav- 66 ...
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... to this liberty in Holland , with these afflictions . Bradford , Hist . Plymouth Plantation , pp . 22 , 23 . † See Plutarch's Life of Cato the Younger . The Pilgrims thought that if a better and easier place THE DECISION . 53.
... to this liberty in Holland , with these afflictions . Bradford , Hist . Plymouth Plantation , pp . 22 , 23 . † See Plutarch's Life of Cato the Younger . The Pilgrims thought that if a better and easier place THE DECISION . 53.
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... thought , but apparently seen , that within a few years more they would be in danger to scatter by necessities pressing them , or sink under their burdens , or both . Therefore , according to the divine proverb , that ' a wise man seeth ...
... thought , but apparently seen , that within a few years more they would be in danger to scatter by necessities pressing them , or sink under their burdens , or both . Therefore , according to the divine proverb , that ' a wise man seeth ...
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