Exodus of the Western Nations, Volume 1

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Page 251 - Boat to be borne by the Souldiers over the Falles, Newport had 120 of the best men he could chuse. If he had burnt her to ashes, one might have carried her in a bag, but as she is, five hundred cannot, to a navigable place above the Falles.
Page 253 - Strange were these pleasures to their conditions ; yet lodging, eating, and drinking, working or playing, they but doing as the President did himselfe. All these things were carried so pleasantly as within a weeke they became Masters : making it their delight to heare the trees thunder as they fell...
Page 208 - Lincolne-shire; where within a short time being glutted with too much company, wherein he took small delight, he retired himselfe into a little wooddie pasture, a good way from any towne, invironed with many hundred Acres of other woods: Here by a faire brook he built a Pavillion of boughes, where only in his cloaths he lay.
Page 413 - Friends (quoth Lewis) henceforth let us live Neighbourly, I 'am as peaceable and quiet as a Lamb, of my own Temper, 'but it has been my Misfortune to live among quarrelsom Neigh'bours.
Page 163 - BROTHER — I have sent you a token from her Majesty, an anchor guided by a lady, as you see. And further, her Highness willed me to send you word, that she...
Page 252 - Though there be fish in the Sea, foules in the ayre, and Beasts in the woods, their bounds are so large, they so wilde, and we so weake and ignorant, we cannot much trouble them.
Page 208 - Art of warre, and Marcus Aurelius; his exercise a good horse, with his lance and Ring...
Page 342 - English ships : and by Cape Anne, there is a Plantation a beginning by the Dorchester men, which they hold of those of New-Plimoth, who also by them have set up a fishing worke; some talke there is some other pretended Plantations, all whose good proceedings the eternal God protect and preserve.
Page 415 - I dare say will stand to his bargain. The sequel of the story proved this fellow's suspicion to be too well grounded; for Lewis revealed our whole secret to the deceased Lord Strutt, who, in reward to his treachery and revenge to Frog and me, settled his whole estate upon the present Philip Baboon.
Page 341 - Hue together as one family or houshold, yet euery man followeth his trade and profession both by sea and land, and all for a generall stocke : out of which they haue all their maintenance, vntill there be a diuident betwixt the Planters and the Aduenturers.

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