The Early History of New England: Illustrated by Numerous Interesting Incidents |
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... persons , they have been inaccessible , and to a great degree unknown . The design of this volume is , to embody these incidents , and present them to the reader in one view . Selections have been made from the following works , viz ...
... persons , they have been inaccessible , and to a great degree unknown . The design of this volume is , to embody these incidents , and present them to the reader in one view . Selections have been made from the following works , viz ...
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... person with a quarter of a pound of bread a day , until harvest . " I returned , " says Mr. Winslow , " with all speed convenient ; when I found the state of the colony much weaker than when I left it , for till now , we were never ...
... person with a quarter of a pound of bread a day , until harvest . " I returned , " says Mr. Winslow , " with all speed convenient ; when I found the state of the colony much weaker than when I left it , for till now , we were never ...
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... person five kernels , which were parched and eaten . ' Mr. Bradford remarks , that the Spaniards were thought by Peter Martyr to have suffered hardships which none but a Spaniard could endure , when they were obliged to live for five ...
... person five kernels , which were parched and eaten . ' Mr. Bradford remarks , that the Spaniards were thought by Peter Martyr to have suffered hardships which none but a Spaniard could endure , when they were obliged to live for five ...
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... persons , out of about three hundred , had died in the colony the winter before , and many of those who remained were in a weak , sickly condition . There was not corn enough to have lasted above a fortnight , and all other provisions ...
... persons , out of about three hundred , had died in the colony the winter before , and many of those who remained were in a weak , sickly condition . There was not corn enough to have lasted above a fortnight , and all other provisions ...
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... persons , men , women , and children , were necessitated , in the extremity of winter , to go down to the mouth of the river , to meet their provisions , as the only expedient to preserve their lives . Not meeting with the vessels they ...
... persons , men , women , and children , were necessitated , in the extremity of winter , to go down to the mouth of the river , to meet their provisions , as the only expedient to preserve their lives . Not meeting with the vessels they ...
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Page 124 - For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
Page 37 - The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me ; He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God: and He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 137 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth: he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Page 119 - Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
Page 264 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 139 - I am feeble and sore broken : I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Page 280 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 7 - His truth, they shook off this yoke of antichristian bondage, and as the Lord's free people joined themselves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in the fellowship of the gospel, to walk in all His ways made known, or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavours, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them.8 And that it cost them something this ensuing history will declare.
Page 187 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Page 154 - From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove : Mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed ; undertake for me.