| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - 860 páginas
...Standish had done upon a number of hostile tribes at Wepagusset, in 1622, wrote to Gov. Bradford, " how happy a thing had it been if you had converted some before you had killed any." But ever since, like the hot-headed Puritan captain, we have felt stronger in our bullets than in our... | |
| Leonard Bacon - 1874 - 512 páginas
...the killing of those poor Indians, 1 of which we heard at first by report, and since by more certain relation, oh ! how happy a thing had it been if you had converted some before you had killed any! Besides, where blood is once begun to be shed, it is seldom stanched of a long 1 Ante, p. 378. time... | |
| Leonard Bacon - 1874 - 546 páginas
...the killing of those poor Indians,1 of which we heard at first by report, and since by. more certain relation, oh ! how happy a thing had it been if you had converted some before you had killed any ! Besides, where blood is once begun to be shed, it is seldom stanched of a long 1 Ante, p. 378. time... | |
| Leonard Bacon - 1874 - 558 páginas
...the killing of those poor Indians,1 of which we heard at first by report, and since by more certain relation, oh ! how happy a thing had it been if you had converted some before you had killed any ! Besides, where blood is once begun to be shed, it is seldom stanched of a long 1 Ante, p. 378. time... | |
| Charles Francis Adams - 1874 - 120 páginas
...Wessagusset settlers as "heathenish Christians," and exclaimed in reference to Pecksuot and Wituwamat, "Oh! how happy a thing had it been if you had converted some before you had killed any." 3 Nevertheless, rough as he was, the Plymouth people then stood in greater need of stern Miles Standish... | |
| Charles Francis Adams - 1874 - 120 páginas
...Wessagusset settlers as "heathenish Christians," and exclaimed in reference to Pecksuot and Wituwamat, " Oh I how happy a thing had it been if you had converted some before you had killed any."3 Nevertheless, rough as he was, the Plymouth people then stood in greater need of stern Miles... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1876 - 680 páginas
...killing of those poor Indians of which we heard at first by reporte, & since by more »«ns recertaine relation, oh ! how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed ariy ; besids, wher bloud is one begune to be shed, it is seldome stanched of a long time after.''... | |
| Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 542 páginas
...relation to the slaughter of several natives suspected of conspiring against that settlement, " 0, how happy a thing had it been if you had converted some before you had killed any ! Besides, where blood is once begun to be shed, it is seldom stanched of a long time after. . . .... | |
| Samuel Eliot - 1876 - 538 páginas
...relation to the slaughter of several natives suspected of conspiring against that settlement, u 0, how happy a thing had it been if you had converted some before you had killed any ! Besides, where blood is once begun to be shed, it is seldom stanched of a long time after. . . .... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1878 - 762 páginas
...be remembered which the good Robinson, twelve years before, had addressed to his Plymouth flock: " Oh! how happy a thing had it been if you had converted some before you had killed any." The problem was simplified, for a time at least, to how these heathen could be most easily and most... | |
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