A Narrative of the Indian Wars in New-England: From the First Planting Thereof in the Year 1607, to the Year 1677: Containing a Relation of the Occasions, Rise and Progress of the War with the Indians, in the Southern, Western, Eastern and Northern Parts of Said Country |
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... promised no such dowry of rich mines of silver and gold to them that would espouse her for their own , as she did unto the other two , which possibly was the reason why she was not so hastily courted by her first discoverers , nor yet ...
... promised no such dowry of rich mines of silver and gold to them that would espouse her for their own , as she did unto the other two , which possibly was the reason why she was not so hastily courted by her first discoverers , nor yet ...
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... promised to send should be given to them , standing so much upon their honor , that they would not be seen to give any thing themselves ; such was the pride and height of spirit lodged in this company of treacherous villains , the dregs ...
... promised to send should be given to them , standing so much upon their honor , that they would not be seen to give any thing themselves ; such was the pride and height of spirit lodged in this company of treacherous villains , the dregs ...
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... promised to go with us to the fort , but his heart we saw much fail- ed him ; we asked him what they intended who promised to wing us , and to surround the fort ; he told us they were much afraid ; but he , seeing our resolution , went ...
... promised to go with us to the fort , but his heart we saw much fail- ed him ; we asked him what they intended who promised to wing us , and to surround the fort ; he told us they were much afraid ; but he , seeing our resolution , went ...
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... promised to give him an answer the next day : but finding that he had res- cued divers of the Pequods , submitting to him since the last defeat , they first demanded the delivery of them , which he sticking at , they refused further ...
... promised to give him an answer the next day : but finding that he had res- cued divers of the Pequods , submitting to him since the last defeat , they first demanded the delivery of them , which he sticking at , they refused further ...
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... promised to deliver him to the Mohegin Sachem whose subject he was ; notwithstanding which promise , going homeward he cut off his head to prevent his telling more tales . And , with great discontent , as he was going home said , he ...
... promised to deliver him to the Mohegin Sachem whose subject he was ; notwithstanding which promise , going homeward he cut off his head to prevent his telling more tales . And , with great discontent , as he was going home said , he ...
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Page 100 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Page i - For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known...
Page 161 - You are a child — you cannot understand matters of war — let your brother or your chief come — him will I answer.
Page 233 - The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
Page 66 - I think I can clearly say, that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony, but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.
Page 60 - Alexander, with about eighty men, were newly come in from hunting, and had left their guns without doors, which Major Winslow with his small company wisely seized, and conveyed away, and then went into the wigwam, and demanded Alexander to go along with him before the Governor, at which message he was much appalled ; but being told by the undaunted messenger, that if he stirred or refused to go, he was a dead man...
Page 153 - Wisdom is better than Weapons of War "), he took a stick, and hung his hat upon it, and then by degrees gently lifted it up, till he thought it would be seen and so become a fit mark for the other that watched to take aim at him.
Page 56 - That if any of his did hurt to any of theirs, he should send the offender, that they might punish him. 3. That if...
Page 226 - WOE to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled ; And dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee ! When thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled ; And when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
Page 82 - Sachem alive, he or they so delivering shall receive for their pains forty trucking cloth coats : in case they bring his head, they shall have twenty like good coats paid them. For every living subject of said Philip's so delivered, the deliverer shall receive two coats, and for every head...