...things, found no price too high to pay for them. "It is not with us as with men whom small matters can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again," wrote William Brewster, when one half of the Mayflower Pilgrims had died in the first terrible year,...

...in the following remark of one emigrating under similar conditions — "It is not with us, as with men whom small things can discourage or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again." The benefits of freedom and liberty outweighed the hardships encountered. The German poet epitomizes...

...be found in the statement written by Robinson and Brewster to Sir Edwin Sandys: "It is not with us as with other men whom small things can discourage...discontentments cause to wish themselves at home." The Pilgrims made important contributions to modern life. Their advanced ideas of democracy helped...

...care of each other's 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,...discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again. We know our entertainment in England and in Holland. We shall much prejudice both our arts and means...

...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 entertain mente in England, and in Holland ; we shall much...

...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...

...prepared for whatever lay ahead. "[I]t is not with us as with other men," they confidently insisted, "whom small things can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish themselves home again." Or, as one of their number, a thirty-year-old corduroy worker named William Bradford,...

...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...

...New Englanders. In a letter written just. before they sailed, one of them said : " It is not with us as with other men, whom small things can discourage...discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again." If this had not been their spirit, the settlers from the Mayflower might well have been in despair...

...and frugall, we thinke we may safly say, as any company of people in the world. ... It is not with us as with other men whom small things can discourage...small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home againe.' They migrated without hope of profit other than a bare livelihood. And they intended to make...