Colonial ChildrenMacmillan, 1902 - 233 páginas |
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ALBERT BUSHNELL HART ANNE BRADSTREET arrived arrow ashore Atahuallpa Balboa bears beaver began better boat brother brought cacique called canoe Captain carry Christian cloth colony corn creatures Cuzco dance danger deer enemy England English father fear feet fire fish FRANCIS HIGGINSON friends gave give ground hand Harquebus heard horses hundred Indians island Japazeus John JOHN BARNARD John Cabot John Rolfe JOHN WINTHROP Karlsefni killed kind King land live master miles morning never night Pennacooks pinnace pirates planters Pocahontas pounds Powhatan's river sail salt salt-box schooner seen sent ship shore side skins Skrellings soon sort Soto Spaniards story thick things Thorfinn Karlsefni thought told took town trade trees vessels Virginia voyage wife wild William Fly winter women woods young
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Página 49 - Make no friendship with an angry man ; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.
Página 198 - When I saw another fond of popularity, constantly employing himself in political bustles, neglecting his own affairs, and ruining them by that neglect ; He pays indeed, says I, too much for his whistle.
Página 197 - I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but disturbing all the family. My brothers, and sisters, and cousins, understanding the bargain I had made, told me I had given four times as much for it as it was worth...
Página 198 - If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellowcitizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship for the sake of accumulating wealth, Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Página 133 - Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembered by that which went before), they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh their weatherbeaten bodies; no houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succour.
Página 199 - In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles.
Página 94 - The next day there came unto us divers boats, and in one of them the King's brother, accompanied with forty or fifty men, very handsome and goodly people, and in their behaviour as mannerly and civil as any of Europe.
Página 215 - I remember once, in making a piece of Latin, my master found fault with the syntax of one word, which was not so used by me heedlessly, but designedly, and therefore I told him there was a plain grammar rule for it. He angrily replied, there was no such rule. I took the grammar and showed the rule to him. Then he smilingly said, ' Thou art a brave boy ; I had forgot it.
Página 67 - I told her she treated me very Rudely, and I did not think it my duty to answer her unmannerly Questions. But to get ridd of them, I told her I come there to have the post's company with me to-morrow on my Journey &c.
Página 133 - Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.