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Pàgina 125 - Upon their final departure from Leyden, he says: "So they left that goodly and pleasant city which had been their resting place near twelve years ; but they knew they were pilgrims, and looked not much on those things, but lift up their eyes to the heavens, their dearest country, and quieted their spirits."' 1 " Hist. Plym. Plantation,
Pàgina 122 - What could now sustain them but the spirit of God and his grace ? May not, and ought not, the children of these fathers rightly say: ' Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean and were ready to perish in this wilderness; but they cried unto the Lord and he heard their voice and looked on their adversity.
Pàgina 122 - When they wandered in the desert wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both hungry and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them. Let them confess before the Lord his loving-kindness, and his wonderful works before the sons of men.'
Pàgina 126 - a brief relation of the most memorable and remarkable passages of the providence of God manifested to the planters of New England in America, with special reference to the first colony thereof called New Plymouth.
Pàgina 86 - They are such abominable ill-husbands, 2 that though their country be overrun with wood, yet they have all their wooden ware from England—their cabinets, chairs, tables, stools, chests, boxes, cart-wheels, and all other things, even so much as their bowls and 1 Beverley, " Hist. Va.
Pàgina 86 - ie, bad economists. birchen brooms, to the eternal reproach of their laziness."1 " Thus they depend altogether upon the liberality of nature, without endeavoring to improve its gifts by art or industry. They sponge upon the blessings of a warm sun and a fruitful soil, and almost grutch the pains of gathering in the bounties of the earth.
Pàgina 281 - condensed and pungent expression: " A ship that - bears much sail, and little or no ballast, is easily overset; and that man whose head hath great abilities and his heart little or no grace, is in danger of foundering." 1 " Authority without wisdom, is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Pàgina 18 - testimony that herein lay the worst peril of the enterprise ; that besides one carpenter, two blacksmiths, two sailors, and a few others named " laborers," " all the rest were poor gentlemen, tradesmen, serving-men, libertines, and such like, ten times more fit to spoil a commonwealth than * either begin one, or but help to maintain one." But in this heterogeneous party of forcible
Pàgina 159 - enthusiasm, upon the face of a new universe. " After many difficulties in boisterous storms, at length, by God's providence . . . we espied land. . . . And the appearance of it much comforted us, especially seeing so goodly a land, and wooded to the brink of the
Pàgina 103 - Once, being at sea along that coast, some of them were " carried by a violent storm among the rocks, where they could find no place to get out. So they went to prayer; and presently there came a great sea and heaved their vessel over into the open sea, in a place between two rocks.