 And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast. Besides, what could...  Democracy in America - Stran 23avtor: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 455 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Dell Upton - 1998 - 340 strani
...refresh their weatherbeaten bodies; no houses or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succour. . . . 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.'1 Architecture... | |
 | Patrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato - 1998 - 520 strani
...winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms . . . 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 ... the whole country,... | |
 | Kieran Doherty - 1999 - 206 strani
...it was winter, and they [knew] . . . the winters of that country . . . to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and 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, full of wild... | |
 | David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - 1998 - 607 strani
...it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent and subject to cruel and 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, full of wild... | |
 | Ted Kerasote - 2001 - 186 strani
...principals on the Mayflower, can be taken as an apposite example for all those an ti- wilderness immigrants: "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... The whole... | |
 | Paul Schneider - 2001 - 386 strani
...Roanoke probably started the trend, but the Pilgrim William Bradford was the first to articulate it: "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. Neither could... | |
 | Chris J. Magoc - 2002 - 324 strani
...violent, and subFrom William Bradford. OfPIimoth Plantation (Boston: Wright and Potter, 1901), 94-97. ject to cruel and 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, full of wild... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 758 strani
...refresh them, no houses, or much less towns to repair unto to seek for succour: and for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of the...and desolate wilderness, full of wilde beasts, and wilde men? and what multitudes of them there were, they then knew not: for which way soever they turned... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 996 strani
...they had now no friends to welcome them, no houses to repair unto to seek for succour: for the reason it was winter, and they that know the winters of the...see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men? And what multitudes of them were there, they then knew now; all things stand... | |
 | Judith Fertig - 2003 - 544 strani
...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... | |
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