So then here is a place, a nurse for soldiers, a practice for mariners, a trade for merchants, a reward for the good, and that which is most of all, a business (most acceptable to God) to bring such poor infidels to the knowledge of God and His holy gospel. Library of Southern Literature: Biography - Page 4927edited by - 1909Full view - About this book
| John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1812 - 914 pages
...for their labour. Other countries have it. So then here is a place a nurfe for foldiers, a pra&ice for mariners, a trade for merchants, a reward for the good, and that which is moil of all, a bufinefs (moil acceptable to God) to bring fuch poor infidels to the knowledge of God... | |
| John Smith - America - 1819 - 278 pages
...So then here is a place, a nurse for souldiers, a practise for mariners, a trade for mari, chants, a reward for the good, and that which is most of all, a businesse (most acceptable to God) to bring such poore Infidels to the knowledge of God and his holy... | |
| William Strachey - Indians of North America - 1849 - 278 pages
...HISTORIE OF TRAVAILE is a place, a nurse for soldiers, a practize for marriners, a trade for marchants, a reward for the good, and, that which is most of all, a busines most acceptable to God, to bring / poore infidells to his knowledge; 'and, albeit, our shipps... | |
| John Ferrar - 1855 - 474 pages
...within one hundred miles all those [their commodities] are to be had. ... So then here is a pJace, a nurse for soldiers, a practice for mariners, a trade...infidels to the knowledge of God and His holy gospel" — Smith, 29. Of. ibid. 163, 209, 211. Hakluyt, iii. 267 seq. s Mr. Anderson (Hist, of the Col. Church)... | |
| John Ferrar - 1855 - 474 pages
...benefit of our land, when as within one hundred miles all those [then- commodities] are to be had. ... So then here is a place, a nurse for soldiers, a practice far mariners, a trade for merchants, a reward for the good, and that which is most of all, a business... | |
| Phineas Fletcher, Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1869 - 348 pages
...concerning 'Virginia' Captain John Smith in his quaint folio wrote " So then hero is a place, a nurso for soldiers, a practice for mariners, a trade for merchants, a reward for the good, and that which ii most of all a business most That stormy Isle which th' isle of Devills hight, Peopled with faith,... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - Baltimore (Md.) - 1874 - 788 pages
...says: "So then here isa place, a nurse for pouldiers, a practise for mariners, a trade for marchants, a reward for the good, and that which is most of all, a businesse (most acceptable to God) to bring such pooru Infidels to the knowledge of God and his holy... | |
| Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - United States - 1877 - 368 pages
...gold, but of iron and perhaps copper. " So then," Smith wrote home with a burst of natural enthusiasm, "here is a place, a nurse for soldiers, a practice...infidels to the knowledge of God and His holy gospel." In the meanwhile the colonists were not forgotten by the company at home. As soon as it was known that... | |
| Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1878 - 332 pages
...has admirably compacted a statement of all the nobler utilities of the young colony of Virginia: " So, then, here is a place, a nurse for soldiers, a...infidels to the knowledge of God and his holy gospel." 3 1 Capt. J. Smith's " Gen. Hist." I. 142, 143. 'Ibid. I. 119, :2o. 'Ibid. I. I2S. We may be well content... | |
| Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1890 - 664 pages
...has admirably compacted a statement of all the nobler utilities of the young colony of Virginia : " So, then, here is a place, a nurse for soldiers, a...infidels to the knowledge of God and his holy gospel." 8 Gen. Hist." I. 142, 143. 3 Ibid. I. 128. 1 35 We may be well content to let this strong and beautiful... | |
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