 | William Gilmore Simms - 1850 - 494 pages
...soldiers left unhurt. After detailing the supplies accorded to the colonists from his stores, he adds, " notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...yield victuals sufficient, if they would have taken paines to get the same ; but they being souldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other rnvti's browes."... | |
 | George Rainsford Fairbanks - 1871 - 358 pages
...John Hawkins's expedition, who, after speaking of the condition in which he found the French, says: " Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows. The ground yieldeth naturally grapes in great store, for in the time the Frenchmen were there, they... | |
 | George Rainsford Fairbanks - 1871 - 372 pages
...John Hawkins's expedition, who, after speaking of the condition in which he found the French, says: " Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows. The ground yieldeth naturally grapes in great store, for in the time the Frenchmen were there, they... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1876 - 336 pages
...the distressed Frenchmen a generous allowance of provisions : " The ground," says the chronicler, " doth yield victuals sufficient if they would have taken pains to get the same; but they" (the Frenchmen), " being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows." This chronicler's... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1876 - 346 pages
...the distressed Frenchmen a generous allowance of provisions : " The ground," says the chronicler, " doth yield victuals sufficient if they would have taken pains to get the same; but they" (the 59 Frenchmen), " being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows." This chronicler's... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1877 - 368 pages
...visited and relieved them, found that it was their own fault if they could not do well in such a land, "but they being soldiers desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows." They made twenty hogsheads of wine out of the grapes of the country, and learned to forget their troubles... | |
 | 1878 - 536 pages
...paines to get the same, but they being souldiours, desired to line by the sweat of other mens browes : for while they had peace with the Floridians, they had fish sufficient, by weares they made to catch the same : but when they grew to warres, the Floridians tooke away the same... | |
 | Richard Hakluyt - 1893 - 350 pages
...they were bound before our coming, at their request we spared them one of our barks, of fifty ton '. Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brow's. For while they had peace with the Floridians they had fish sufficient by weirs which they made... | |
 | 1895 - 660 pages
...bound, before our coming, at their request, we spared them [for 700 crowns] one of our barks of 50 tons. Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...other men's brows : for while they had peace with the Floridans, they had fish sufficient, by weirs which they made to catch the same ; but when they grew... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1882 - 674 pages
...bound, before our coming, at their request, we spared them {for 700 crowns] one of our barks of 50 tons. Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows ; foe they had peace with the Floridans, they had fish sufficient, by weirs which they made to catch... | |
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Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen had, the ground doth yield victuals sufficient if they would have taken pains to get the same ; but they, being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows. 
