 | Chris J. Magoc - 2002 - 324 páginas
...fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness,...of wild beasts and wild men — and what multitudes there might be of them they knew not. Neither could they, as it were, go up to the top of Pisgah to... | |
 | Alan Taylor - 2002 - 548 páginas
...the precolonial landscape as beautiful, the leading Puritans perceived, in William Bradford's phrase, "a hideous and desolate wilderness full of wild beasts and wild men." The New English saw the Indians as their opposite — as pagan peoples who had surrendered to their... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 996 páginas
...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,...wild beasts and wild men? And what multitudes of them were there, they then knew now; all things stand in appearance with a weather-beaten face, and the... | |
 | Judith Fertig - 2003 - 544 páginas
...for all the seaweary Pilgrims who were expecting a latter-day Promised Land, Bradford sadly recalled, "What could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men." Before the Mayflower finally reached Plymouth Bay in a snowstorm on December 11, Bradford's wife had... | |
 | Eric Hinderaker, Peter C. Mancall - 2003 - 226 páginas
...harsh winter in a land "subject to cruel and fierce storms." "What could they see," Bradford asked, "but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men — and what multitudes there might be of them they knew not."* Despite their fears, the settlers of Plymouth and Massachusetts... | |
 | Peter Charles Hoffer - 2003 - 345 páginas
...Bradford, elected governor of the Plymouth colony in 1621, feared the novelty: "What could they see here but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men — and multitudes there might be of them they knew not ... all things stand upon them with a weather-beaten... | |
 | Carolyn Merchant - 2003 - 324 páginas
...forest. Pilgrim leader William Bradford, who had preceded John Winthrop by ten years, viewed the land as a "hideous and desolate wilderness full of wild beasts and wild men." "Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean and were ready to perish in this wilderness,"... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 758 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Cowley - 2004 - 324 páginas
...and fierce storms, dangerous to travil! to known places, much more to serch an unknown coast. Besids, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness , full of wild beasts and wild men? " By the beginning of the spring of 1621 , half their number had died, mostly as a result of scurvy,... | |
 | Gary Ferguson - 2004 - 306 páginas
...heights, lamented William Bradford in his dreary Of Plymouth Plantation, when there was nothing to see but "a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men." Why bother gaining the summit of Mount Pisgah since whichever way you turned your eyes — "save upward... | |
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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. 
