| John Abbot Goodwin - 1879 - 726 páginas
...following December, John Robinson, in writing his last letter to Bradford, said of this fight: " O, how happy a thing had it been if you had converted some, before you had killed any. . . . Let me be bold to exhort you to seriously consider of the disposition of your captain, whom I... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 480 páginas
...has used the words of John Robinson to the colonists after the first encounter with the Indians: U0h, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed anv '- " Is it to shoot red squirrels you have your howitzer planted There on the roof of the church,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1888 - 706 páginas
...killing of those poor Indians of which we heard at first by reporte, & since by more «rft recertaine relation, oh ! how happy a thing had it been, if you...before you had killed any ; besids, wher bloud is oner begune to be shed, it is seldome stanched of a long time after." It was certainly a humane and... | |
| Nancy R E. Bell - 1884 - 416 páginas
...of the affair, Mr. Eobinson wrote from Holland, " Concerning the killing of those poor Indians ... oh, how happy a thing had it been if you had converted some before you had killed any." The energetic conduct of Standish, however it may have been judged by those who were not on the spot,... | |
| Duane Hamilton Hurd - 1884 - 632 páginas
...of these poor Indians, of which we hoard at first by report and since by more certain relation, oh I how happy a thing had it been if you had converted some before you had killed any; besides, where blood has once begun to bo xlied, it is seldom .stanched of a long time alter. You well... | |
| William Thomas Davis - 1885 - 218 páginas
...Concerning the killing of these poor Indians, 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 has once begun to be shed, it is seldom stanched of a long time after. You well... | |
| William Thomas Davis - 1885 - 222 páginas
...of these poor Indians, of which we heard at first by report and since by more certain relation, oh l how happy a thing had it been if you had converted some before you had killed any ; besides, where blood has once begun to be shed, it is seldom stanched of a long time after. You well... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 108 páginas
...has used the words of John Robinson to the colonists after the first encounter with the Indians : " Oh, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed any I " Must be the tongue of fire that speaks from the mouth of the cannon ! " «i Thereupon answered... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 376 páginas
...sentiment of John Robinson when he wrote to the colonists after the first encounter with the Indians : " Oh, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed any ! "] Page 319. With Stephen and Richard and Gilbert. [These names are not taken at random. Stephen... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 374 páginas
...sentiment of John Robinson when he wrote to the colonists after the first encounter with the Indians : " Oh, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed any ! "] Page 319. With Stephen and Richard and Gilbert. [These names are not taken at random. Stephen... | |
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