 | Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1669 - 562 pages
...to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search unknown coasts. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate...of wild beasts and wild men ? And what multitudes of them there were, they then knew not ; neither could they, as it were, go up to the top of Pisgah,... | |
 | United States - 1825 - 398 pages
...see but a hidious & desolate wildernes, full of wild beasts and willd men ? and what multituds ther might be of them they knew not, Neither could they, as it were, goe up to ye tope of Pisgah,to vew from this willdernes a more goodly cuntrie to feed their hops ;... | |
 | Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1826 - 498 pages
...olate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men? And what multitudes of them there were, they then knew not; neither could they, as it were, go up to...Pisgah, to view from this wilderness a more goodly country 4o feed their hopes; for which way soever they turned their eyes (save upward to heaven) they... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1838 - 354 pages
...to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search unknown coasts. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wilde beasts and wilde men? and what multitudes of them there were, they then knew not : for which... | |
 | English periodicals - 1838 - 750 pages
...to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search unknown coasts Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wilde beasts and wilde men ? and what multitudes of them there were they then knew not ; for which... | |
 | Benjamin Hanbury - Congregationalism - 1839 - 624 pages
.... sharp and violent ; . . dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search unknown coasts. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate...of wild beasts and wild men ? And what multitudes of them there were, they then knew not. . . If they looked behind them, there was the mighty ocean... | |
 | Gilbert Ainslie Young - Canada - 1839 - 102 pages
...to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search unknown coasts. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wilde beasts and wilde men ? and what multitudes of them there were they then knew not ; for which... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1841 - 536 pages
...subject to violent storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search out unknown coasts. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate...they, as it were, go up to the top of Pisgah, to view 1 " The nearest plantation to their houses and provide for the them is a French one at Port Royal,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1841 - 552 pages
...subject to violent storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search out unknown coasts. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate...they, as it were, go up to the top of Pisgah, to view 1 "The nearest plantation to their houses and provide for the them is a French one at Port Royal, winter.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - America - 1844 - 332 pages
...land at Cape Cod, on the ninth of November. But " what could they see," says Morton in his Memorial, " but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild...Pisgah, to view from this wilderness a more goodly country, to feed their hopes. For which way soever they turned their eyes, save upward to the heavens,... | |
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Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men— and what multitudes there might be of them they knew not. 
