 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,...  Law, Soldiers, and Combatавторы: Peter Karsten - 1978 - Страниц: 204Недоступно для просмотра - Подробнее о книге
 | John Buxton Marsden - 1853 - Страниц: 492
...at Lcyden ; and when they looked for his congratulations he wrote thus in mournful accents : — " How happy a thing had it been if you had converted some, before you had killed any 1" A few years passed, and another scene of carnage denies the history of the pilgrims of America.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - Страниц: 582
...doubted whether there was not wanting that tenderness of the life of man which was meet, and added : " О how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before yon killed any." He seems to have been heartily loved by his people, and deserving all their love;... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - Страниц: 584
...whether there was not wanting that tenderness of the life of man which was meet, and added : " О hew happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before yon killed any." He seems to have been heartily loved by his people, and deserving all their love ;... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1856 - Страниц: 174
...relation to the slaughter of several natives suspected of conspiring against that settlement — " O, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted...where blood is once begun to be shed, it is seldom stanched of a long time after. . . . It is also a thing more glorious in men's eyes than pleasing in... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 516
...of those poor Indeans,* of which we heard at first by reporte, and since by more certaine relation, oh! how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some, before you had killed any ; besids, wher bloud is one begune to be shed, it is seldome stanched of a long time after. You will... | |
 | 1861 - Страниц: 924
...it was on hearing the news, that Robinson, in the genuine spirit of Puritanism, wrote to them : " O how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed any !" And what Christian heart would not utter the same regret? But probably neither Robinson, nor any... | |
 | 1861 - Страниц: 922
...it was on hearing the news, that Robinson, in the genuine spirit of Puritanism, wrote to them : " O how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed any !" And what Christian heart would not utter the same regret ? But probably neither Robinson, nor any... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1862 - Страниц: 242
...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, when blood is once begun to be shed, it is seldom stanched of a long time after. You will say they... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1869 - Страниц: 522
...concerning the seven Indians who fell in this conflict, that John Robinson -wrote the often-quoted words : " Oh, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed any ! " So Cotton said, afterwards, to the colonists of Massachusetts Bay : " Offend not the poor natives... | |
 | Stephen Merrill Allen - 1871 - Страниц: 150
...number of hostile Indians at Wessagusset (now Weymouth), in 1623, wrote thus to Governor Bradford: "How happy a thing had it been if you had converted some before you had killed any. . . . Upon this occasion let me be bold to exhort you seriously to consider the disposition of your... | |
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