| William Bradford - 1920 - 476 páginas
...with you, mutualy, I know, comunicate your letters, as I desire you may doe these, etc. Concerning the killing of those poor Indeans, of which we heard at...begune to be shed, it is seldome stanched of a long tune after. You will say they deserved it. I grant it; but upon what provocations and invitments by... | |
| Walter Herbert Burgess - 1920 - 472 páginas
...Concerning the killing of those 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 is once begun to be shed, it is seldom stanched of a long time after. You will... | |
| Walter Herbert Burgess - 1920 - 468 páginas
...of those poor Indians of which we heard at first by report, and since by more certain relationoh ! 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. You will... | |
| 1927 - 656 páginas
...leaders were destroyed of the Native Races, as good old John Robinson told them: "Oh, how happy to think had it been if you had converted some before you had killed so many." Superstition ruled them. A Boston man violated the Sabbath law, and next day one of his his... | |
| William Bradford - 1952 - 518 páginas
...relation. Oh, how happy a * This was John Oldham and his like (Bradford). • Rev. John Robinson's. 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 staunched of a long time after. You will... | |
| Timothy George - 1982 - 278 páginas
...allowed. Cf. his response to the report that certain Indians had been killed by the Plymouth colonists: "Oh, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed any"! Of Plymouth Plantation, 374-75. divine attributes, wisdom, omnipotence, and justice, threatened by... | |
| Timothy George - 1982 - 278 páginas
...allowed. Cf. his response to the report that certain Indians had been killed by the Plymouth colonists: "Oh, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed any"! Of Plymouth Plantation, 374-75. 178 Defence, 64. divine attributes, wisdom, omnipotence, and justice,... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1987 - 420 páginas
...and the murder of the tribe's leaders. Sedgwick slightly changed the quotation which is as follows: "How happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some, before you had killed any." 2. This passage is from William Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation (3J9). 3. William Hubbard,... | |
| David E. Stannard - 1992 - 420 páginas
...Plymouth's William Bradford that although a group of massacred Indians no doubt "deserved" to be killed, "Oh, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed any!"138 That was probably the only thing the New England Puritans and California's Spanish Catholics... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 páginas
...the killing of those 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 is once begun to be shed, it is seldom staunched of a long time after. You will... | |
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