 King and his grim attendants ever saw: and thus enthralled in their barbarous power, I cannot say I felt the least occasion of want that was in the power of those my mortal foes to prevent, notwithstanding all their threats. After some six weeks...  Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative - Seite xvvon Robert S. Tilton - 1994 - 251 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
 | Harry Clinton Green, Mary Wolcott Green - 1912 - 522 Seiten
...as an " Indian Princesse," and continuing, said: "After some six weeks' fatting among those savage courtiers, at the minute of my execution she hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine; and not only that, but so prevailed with her father that I was safely conducted... | |
 | Lewis Spence - 1914 - 490 Seiten
...foes to prevent, notwithstanding all their threats. After some six weeks fatting among these savage courtiers, at the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine ; and not only that, but so prevailed with her father, that I was safely conveyed... | |
 | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton - 1915 - 392 Seiten
...those my mortall foes to prevent, notwithstanding al their threats. After some six weeks fatting among those Salvage Courtiers, at the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating of her own braines to save mine; and not only that, but so prevailed with her father, that I was safely... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 568 Seiten
...Sistorie in 1624 that the storyappears in full, though in 1616, in a letter to tho Queen, he says that " at the minute of my execution she hazarded the beating out of her brains to save mine." Charles Deane, the antiquarian, in his edition of Wingfleld's Discourse of Virginia,... | |
 | Augustus White Long - 1917 - 458 Seiten
...my mortal foes to prevent, notwithstanding all their threats. After some six weeks fattening among those Salvage Courtiers, at the minute of my execution,...beating out of her owne braines to save mine, and not only that, but so prevailed with her father, that I was safely conducted to James towne, where I found... | |
 | Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - 1917 - 382 Seiten
...mortall foes to preuent, notwithstanding all their threats. ' After some sixe weeks fatting among these Salvage Courtiers, at the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her owne brains to saue mine, but not onely that, but so preuailed with her father, that I was safely conducted... | |
 | 1919 - 978 Seiten
...(1608) he had testified to her services to the colony. In 1616, in a letter to the queen, he says that 'at the minute of my execution she hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine." But not until the appearance of his 'General! Historic' (1624) does the tale... | |
 | Edward Keble Chatterton - 1927 - 332 Seiten
...as my selfe." In this petition to the Queen Smith deliberately states of Pocahontas these words : " At the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her owne braines to saue mine." It is all very well for Deane 2 to scoff at Smith and call him " a true knight errant "... | |
 | Kimball Young - 1927 - 884 Seiten
...says: After some six weeks (elsewhere he makes it four weeks) fatting amongst these salvage countries, at the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her own braines to save mine. Then in 1624 Smith published another book, the Generale Historie, in which... | |
 | Michael Kraus, Davis D. Joyce - 1990 - 466 Seiten
...Smith told rather simply the story of his rescue by Pocahontas, which most students largely discredit. "After some six weeks fatting amongst those Salvage...my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her own braines to save mine; and not onely that, but so prevailed with her father, that I was safely conducted... | |
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