 | Fanny Eliza Coe - 1912 - Broj stranica: 334
...pain and sorrow, the Pilgrim spirit was undaunted. Brewster spoke for the whole band when he said: "It is not with us as with men whom small things can discourage or small discontentments cause to wish themselves home again." Were they not nearer God in New England... | |
 | Mary Clark Barnes - 1913 - Broj stranica: 180
...where they might " live in a distinct body by themselves." Taking counsel together, they agreed that " It is not with us as with men whom small things can discourage. The people are industrious and frugal. We are knit together as a body in a most sacred covenant of the... | |
 | Ada Walker Camehl - 1916 - Broj stranica: 1168
...the number, the cold and privations of the wilderness being more than they were able to endure ; but, "It is not with us as with men whom small things can discourage or small discontentments cause to wish themselves home again," Elder Brewster said, speaking for the... | |
 | James Truslow Adams - 1916 - Broj stranica: 424
...wilderness, clearing the forest, building villages and founding a state was being carried on by them. "It is not with us as with men whom small things can discourage or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again," wrote Brewster from New England,... | |
 | 1920 - Broj stranica: 432
...mother-country, and inured to the difficulties of a strange land : the people are industrious and frugal. It is not with us as with men whom small things can discourage. ' ' Returning from Holland to Southampton, they started in two small vessels for the new land, but... | |
 | Henry Neumann - 1923 - Broj stranica: 410
...After that first winter \vhose rigors carried off half their number, Elder Brewster made the comment: "It is not with us as with men whom small things can discourage or small discontents make them wish themselves home again." They had their stock of the usual human... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - Broj stranica: 648
...mother country, and inured to the difficulties of a strange land. The people are industrious and frugal. It is not with us as with men whom small things can discourage." Before the Mayflower landed, the voyagers held a meeting in the little cabin and drew up a "Compact,"... | |
 | Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa.) - 1925 - Broj stranica: 714
...was of that mettle evidenced in the following remark of one emigrating under similar conditions — "It is not with us, as with men whom small things can discourage or small discontentments cause to wish themselves at home again." The benefits of freedom and liberty... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1840 - Broj stranica: 428
...of the violation whereof we make great conscience, and by virtue whereof we hold ourselves straitly tied to all care of each other's good, and of the...as with men whom small things can discourage." The messengers of the Pilgrims continued to be received with great kindness by the Virginia company ; they... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1855 - Broj stranica: 604
...the Lord of the creation, whereof we make great conscience, and by virtue whereof we hold ourselves tied to all care of each other's good, and of the...as with men whom small things can discourage." The application of the Pilgrims to the King brought out some characteristic remarks : " To advance the... | |
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... mother country, and inured to the difficulties of a strange land ; the people are industrious and frugal. We are knit together as a body in a most sacred covenant of the Lord, of the violation whereof we make great conscience, and by virtue whereof... 
