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Page 453
... honour Captaine but one King ; and I liue not here as your subiect , but as your discourse to friend to pleasure you with what I can . By the gifts you till he found bestow on me , you gaine more then by trade : yet would you visit ...
... honour Captaine but one King ; and I liue not here as your subiect , but as your discourse to friend to pleasure you with what I can . By the gifts you till he found bestow on me , you gaine more then by trade : yet would you visit ...
Page 464
... honour . Too much I confesse the world cannot attribute to their ever memorable merit : and to cleare vs from the blind worlds ignorant censure , these few words may suffice any reasonable vnderstanding . It was the Spanyards good hap ...
... honour . Too much I confesse the world cannot attribute to their ever memorable merit : and to cleare vs from the blind worlds ignorant censure , these few words may suffice any reasonable vnderstanding . It was the Spanyards good hap ...
Page 466
... honour and reward , better then is yet here to be had : but the greater part must be more industrious , or starue , how euer you haue beene heretofore tollerated by the authoritie of the Councell , from that I haue often commanded you ...
... honour and reward , better then is yet here to be had : but the greater part must be more industrious , or starue , how euer you haue beene heretofore tollerated by the authoritie of the Councell , from that I haue often commanded you ...
Page 487
... honour that ever belonged to the greatest Monarkes , was the inlarging their Dominions , and erecting Common - weales . Yet howsoever any of them haue attributed to themselues , the Conquerors of the world : there is more of the world ...
... honour that ever belonged to the greatest Monarkes , was the inlarging their Dominions , and erecting Common - weales . Yet howsoever any of them haue attributed to themselues , the Conquerors of the world : there is more of the world ...
Page 491
... Honour of the Author , 18 ] Captaine Iohn Smith , and his Worke . Amn'd Envie is a sp'rite , that ever haunts Beasts , mis - nam'd Men ; Cowards , or Ignorants . But , onely such shee followes , whose deare WORTH ( Maugre her malice ) ...
... Honour of the Author , 18 ] Captaine Iohn Smith , and his Worke . Amn'd Envie is a sp'rite , that ever haunts Beasts , mis - nam'd Men ; Cowards , or Ignorants . But , onely such shee followes , whose deare WORTH ( Maugre her malice ) ...
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Page 400 - ... two rowes of men, and behind them as many women, with all their heads and shoulders painted red; many of their heads bedecked with the white downe of Birds; but every one with something: and a great chayne of white beads about their necks.
Page 400 - At his entrance before the king, all the people gave a great shout. The queen of Appamatuck was appointed to bring him water to wash his hands, and another brought him a bunch of feathers, instead of a towel to dry them.
Page 533 - Were you not afraid to come into my fathers Countrie, and caused feare in him and all his people (but mee) and feare you here I should call you father; I tell you then I will, and you shall call mee childe, and so I will bee for ever and ever your Countrieman.
Page 391 - ... corne, our drinke was water, our lodgings Castles in the ayre. With this lodging and dyet, our extreame toile in bearing and planting Pallisadoes, so strained and bruised...
Page 971 - Signed, sealed published and declared by the above named James Miller to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses in the presence of the Testator.
Page 487 - For all the rest were poore Gentlemen, Trad[e]smen, Serving-men, libertines, and such like, ten times more fit to spoyle a Common-wealth, then either begin one, or but helpe to maintaine one.
Page 400 - Pocahontas the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her arms, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death : whereat the Emperour was contented he should live to make him hatchets, and her bells, beads, and copper ; for they thought him as well of all occupations as themselves.
Page 399 - Mutchato's, along their cheekes : round about him those fiends daunced a pretty while, and then came in three more as ugly as the rest ; with red eyes, and white...
Page 530 - That some ten years ago being in Virginia, and taken prisoner by the power of Powhatan their chief King, I received from this great...
Page 533 - After a modest salutation, without any word, she turned about, obscured her face, as not seeming well contented ; and in that humour her husband, with divers others, we all left her two or three houres, repenting my selfe to have writ she could speake English. But not long after, she began to talke, and remembered mee well what courtesies shee had done...