 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 508 pages
...in 1630. He was then a young man, of austere life and popular manners, full of reading, skilled in controversy, and gifted with a rapid, copious, and...windmill in the head of this one man." The heresy whirh appeared most grievous to his brethren, was his zeal for unqualified religious liberty. In the... | |
 | Adam Hodgson - 1824 - 492 pages
...very unusual thing in America,) with austere life and popular manners, full of reading, skilled in controversy, and gifted with a rapid, copious, and...motion of a wind-mill in the head of this one man.' To his fervent zeal for liberty of opinion, this singular man united an equal degree of tenacity to... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 268 pages
...NewEngland, in 1630. He was then a young man of austere life and popular manners, full of reading, skilled in controversy, and gifted with a rapid, copious, and...for unqualified religious liberty. In the warmth of * Cotton Mather — Magnalia, Book VII. in the chapter, entitled " Littlt Foa'es, or the spirit of... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1833 - 280 pages
...manners, full of reading, skilled in A controversy, and gifted with a rapid, copious, and veheI ment eloquence. The writers of those days represent ^ him...for unqualified religious liberty. In the warmth of * Cotton Mather — Magnolia, Book VII. in the chapter, entitled " Little Faxes, or the spirit of Rigid... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1846 - 322 pages
...But I can tell my reader, that, about twenty years before this, there was a whole country in America like to be set on fire by the rapid motion of a windmill, in the head of one particular man. Know then, that about the year 1630, arrived here one Mr. Roger Williams ; who... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1853 - 696 pages
...But I can tell my résider that, about twenty years before this, there was a whole country in America like to be set on fire by the rapid motion of a windmill, in the head of one particular man. Know, then, that about the year 1630, arrived here one Mr. Roger Williams; who... | |
 | Cotton Mather - 1853 - 696 pages
...But I can tell my reader that, about twenty years before this, there was a whole country in America like to be set on fire by the rapid motion of a windmill, in the head of one particular man. Know, then, that about the year 1630, arrived here one Mr. Roger Williams; who... | |
 | John Lauris Blake, Alexander Vietts Blake - 1861 - 298 pages
...date it was not known of Powell, as Cotton Mather says of Roger Williams, that " the whole country was soon like to be set on fire by the rapid motion of a wind mill in the head of this one man." INDIAN ANECDOTES. 161 GRATITUDE OF OSCEOLA. Osceola's agency,... | |
 | 1870 - 306 pages
...But I can tell my reader, that, about twenty years before this, there was a whole country in America like to be set on fire by the rapid motion of a windmill, in the head of one particular man. Know then, that about the year 1630, arrived here one Mr. Roger Williams ; who... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1870 - 318 pages
...But I can tell my reader, that, about twenty years before this, there was a whole country in America like to be set on fire by the rapid motion of a windmill, in the head of one particular man. Know then, that about the year 1630, arrived here one Mr. Roger Williams ; who... | |
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... violent storm, then blowing; the stone at length by its rapid motion became so intensely hot, as to fire the mill, from whence the flames, being dispersed by the high winds, did set a whole town on fire. But I can tell my reader that... 
