The Polyanthea: Or, A Collection of Interesting Fragments, in Prose and Verse:: Consisting of Original Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches, Dialogues, Letters, Characters, &c. &c. In Two Volumes, المجلد 2J. Budd, 1804 |
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الصفحة 345 - her wild train, she as freely frequented as her father's habitation ; and, during the time of two or three years, she next, under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine, and utter confusion, which, if in those times had once been dissolved, Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival,
الصفحة 344 - the king's most dear and well-beloved daughter, being but a child of twelve or thirteen years of age, whose compassionate, pitiful heart of my desperate estate, gave me much cause to respect her. I being the first Christian this proud king and his grim attendants ever saw, and thus enthralled in their barbarous power, I cannot say I
الصفحة 341 - and Captain Waldo I have sworn of the council, and crowned Powhatan according to your instructions. For the charge of this voyage of two or three thousand pounds, we have not received the value of an hundred pounds; and for the quartered boat to be borne by the soldiers over the falls, Newport had
الصفحة 288 - by which they intended to divine, whether his intentions toward them were friendly or hostile. The manner of it was this : early in the morning a great fire was made in a long house, and a mat spread on each side, on one of which he was placed, and the guard retired. Presently an Indian priest, hideously painted,
الصفحة 345 - her father and our colony, all which time she was not heard of, about two years after she herself was taken prisoner, being so detained near two years longer, the colony by that means was relieved, peace concluded, and at last, rejecting her barbarous condition, was married to an English gentleman, with whom at this present,
الصفحة 346 - a queen should do her some honour, more than she can imagine, for being so kind to your servants and subjects, would so ravish her with content, as endear her dearest blood to effect that, your Majesty and all the king's honest subjects most earnestly desire; and so I humbly kiss your gracious hands.
الصفحة 362 - to God than all the world besides; to a willing man there is no injury done; and as by God's grace I forgive all the world with a calmness and meekness of infinite contentment to my dislodging soul; so, Sir, to you
الصفحة 339 - ship's hold, contained as many worms as grains; so that we* might truly call it rather so much bran than corn. Our drink' was water, our lodgings castles in the air. With this lodging' and diet, our extreme toil in bearing and planting pallisadoes, so strained and bruised us, and our continual labour in the
الصفحة 342 - of those poor people can scarce get necessaries to live, but from hand to mouth; and though your factors there can buy as much in a week as will freight you a ship, or as much as you please, you must not expect from us any such matter, which are but
الصفحة 337 - is custom : yet when he listeth his will is a law, and must be obeyed ; not only as a king, but as half a god they esteem him. His inferior kings, whom they call Werowances, are tied to rule by customs, and have power of life and death