 | John Buxton Marsden - Church and state - 1853 - 492 pages
...at Lcyden ; and when they looked for his congratulations he wrote thus in mournful accents : — " How happy a thing had it been if you had converted some, before you had killed any 1" A few years passed, and another scene of carnage denies the history of the pilgrims of America.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 582 pages
...doubted whether there was not wanting that tenderness of the life of man which was meet, and added : " О how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before yon killed any." He seems to have been heartily loved by his people, and deserving all their love;... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1854 - 584 pages
...whether there was not wanting that tenderness of the life of man which was meet, and added : " О hew happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before yon killed any." He seems to have been heartily loved by his people, and deserving all their love ;... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1856 - 516 pages
...with you, mutualy, I know, comunicate your letters, as I desire you may doe these, &c. Concerning ye killing of those poor Indeans,* of which we heard...begune to be shed, it is seldome stanched of a long time after. You will say they deserved it. I grant it ; but upon what provocations and invitments by... | |
 | William Bradford - Massachusetts - 1856 - 568 pages
...mutualy, I know, comunicate your letters, as I desire yon may doe these, &c." HISTORY OF Concerning y« killing of those poor Indeans,* of which we heard...certaine relation, oh ! how happy a thing had it been, if yon had converted some, before you had killed any ; besids, wher bloud is one begune to be shed, it... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - United States - 1856 - 174 pages
...relation to the slaughter of several natives suspected of conspiring against that settlement — " O, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some, before you had killed any. Besides, where blood is once begun to be shed, it is seldom stanched of a long time after. . . . It... | |
 | Theology - 1861 - 924 pages
...it was on hearing the news, that Robinson, in the genuine spirit of Puritanism, wrote to them : " O how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed any !" And what Christian heart would not utter the same regret? But probably neither Robinson, nor any... | |
 | 1861 - 922 pages
...it was on hearing the news, that Robinson, in the genuine spirit of Puritanism, wrote to them : " O how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed any !" And what Christian heart would not utter the same regret ? But probably neither Robinson, nor any... | |
 | Joseph Angus - Christian sociology - 1862 - 242 pages
...the killing of those poor Indians, of which we heard at first by report, and since by more certain relation, oh ! how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed any ; besides, when blood is once begun to be shed, it is seldom stanched of a long time after. You will... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1869 - 522 pages
...concerning the seven Indians who fell in this conflict, that John Robinson -wrote the often-quoted words : " Oh, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some before you had killed any ! " So Cotton said, afterwards, to the colonists of Massachusetts Bay : " Offend not the poor natives... | |
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Concerning the killing of those poor Indians, of which we heard at first by report, and since by more certain relation. Oh, how happy a thing had it been, if you had converted some, before you had killed any; besides where blood is once begun to be shed,... 
