 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - Страниц: 792
...England — was diminutive in person, and ardent in disposition. Hubbard, the historian, said of him: "A little chimney is soon fired: so was the Plymouth...small stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper." He was a soldier by profession, and the colonists relied much on his military skill and personal bravery,... | |
 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - Страниц: 782
...Hubbard, the historian, said of him: "A little chimney is soon fired: so was the Plymouth captain—a man of very small stature, yet of a very hot -and angry temper." He was a soldier by profession, and the colonists relied much on his military skill and personal bravery,... | |
 | Stephen Merrill Allen - 1871 - Страниц: 150
...size, and it is said that the grace of patience was not his. An old contemporary writer says of him : u A little chimney is soon fired : so was the Plymouth...stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper." The saintly Robinson, of Leyden, on hearing of the execution which Standish had done upon a number of hostile... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - 1876 - Страниц: 708
...base of operations, defied the Captain. High words passed and might have ended in bloodshed, for as "a little chimney is soon fired, so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper." l But the fortifiBarricade at Cape Ann. cation... | |
 | Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1877 - Страниц: 368
...obligations to him, had to confess with sorrow that the old Adam had much to do with his prowess. " A little chimney is soon fired ; so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper." He nearly came to blows with a company of his... | |
 | Essex Institute - 1882 - Страниц: 338
...our Savior Christ, or of John the Baptist, his harbinger, or, if he was ever there, had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the ~ Thornton, Limiting at Cape Anne, for text of Patent and interesting observations thereon, 31-47.... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - 1882 - Страниц: 564
...our Savior Christ, or of John the Baptist, his harbinger, or, if he was ever there, had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the 'Thornton, Landing at Cape Anne, Tor text of Patent and interesting observations thereon, 31-47. •... | |
 | 1883 - Страниц: 504
...our Savior Christ, or of John the Baptist, his harbinger, or, if he was ever there, had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the cloak rather than needlessly con1 Thornton, Landing at Cape Anne, for text of Patent and interesting observations thereon, 31-47.... | |
 | Herbert Baxter Adams - 1883 - Страниц: 96
...our Savior Christ, or of John the Baptist, his harbinger, or, if he was ever there, bad forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the ' Thornton, Landing at Cape Anne, for text of Patent and interesting observations thereon, 31-47. cloak... | |
 | John Martin Vincent - 1883 - Страниц: 502
...our Savior Christ, or of John the Baptist, his harbinger, or, if he was ever there, had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the ' Thornton, Landing at Cape Anne, for text of Patent and interesting observations thereon, 31-47. •Smith,... | |
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Baptist, his harbinger, or, if he was ever there* had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the cloak rather than needlessly contend for the coat, though taken away without order. A little chimney is soon fired ; so was... 
