| John Andrew Doyle - 1887 - 494 pages
...iiBrdships the settlers on the eve of departure that ' it was of the first . . L winter. not with them as with other men, whom small things can discourage...discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again.' 2 there was also an Accomac in Virginia. Smith may, perhaps, have supposed identity of name where there... | |
| A. Wyatt Tilby - 1911 - 326 pages
...They had come prepared for hardships. ' It is not with us as with other men,' wrote one of them, ' whom small things can discourage or small discontentments cause to wish themselves home again.' They were ' well weaned from the delicate milk of the mother country, and inured to the... | |
| William Bradford - 1912 - 550 pages
...care of each others good, and of the whole by every one and so mutually. 5. Lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish them selves at home againe. We knowe our entertainmente in England, and in Holand ; we shall much prejudice... | |
| Fanny Eliza Coe - 1912 - 334 pages
...Pilgrim spirit was undaunted. Brewster spoke for the whole band when he said: "It is not with us as with men whom small things can discourage or small discontentments cause to wish themselves home again." Were they not nearer God in New England than in Leyden or in England ? In the early spring... | |
| A. Wyatt Tilby - 1912 - 298 pages
...They had come prepared for hardships. ' It is not with us &a with other men,' wrote one of them, ' whom small things can discourage or small discontentments cause to wish themselves home again.' They were ' well weaned from the delicate milk of the mother country, and inured to the... | |
| Alber Hale Plumb - 1914 - 524 pages
...friend, in what Mr. Robinson nominated as ' instances of inducement ' : " ' Lastly, it is not with us as with other men whom small things can discourage,...discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again.' " Yesterday we counselled for our more effectuous protection, and, in sum, deemed it timely to begin... | |
| James Truslow Adams - 1916 - 424 pages
...forest, building villages and founding a state was being carried on by them. "It is not with us as with men whom small things can discourage or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again," wrote Brewster from New England, and that same spirit breathes through the early records of those who... | |
| 1917 - 622 pages
...their livings there justify Robinson and Brewster in their memorable assertion: "It is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage,...discontentments, cause to wish themselves at home again." When their friends at Amsterdam, who were originally to share in the expedition, are disheartened by... | |
| William Eleazar Barton - 1917 - 368 pages
...care of each others good, and of ye whole by every one and so mutually. 5. Lastly, it is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish them selves at home againe. We knowe our entertainmente in England, and in Holland; we shall much prejudice... | |
| 1918 - 350 pages
...colonies of men who earned the right to say, in William Bradford's quiet words, "It is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage,...discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again." One was the colony of Pilgrims at Plymouth, headed by Bradford himself. The other was the Puritan colony... | |
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