 | Genealogy - 1916 - 408 pages
...character. Miles Standish the hero of New England died at Duxbury in 1656. Mr. Hubbard 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." Samuel Newman, the first minister of Rehoboth,... | |
 | Genealogy - 1916 - 246 pages
...character. Miles Standish the hero of New England died at Duxbury in 1656. Mr. Hubbard 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." Samuel Newman, the first minister of Rehoboth,... | |
 | Mary Rogers Bangs - Cape Cod (Mass.) - 1920 - 342 pages
...account of his experience and skill, had been chosen for their military leader. Hubbard writes of him: "A little chimney is soon fired; so was the Plymouth...small stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper." And when wise John Robinson, at Leyden, heard of Standish's bloody reprisals, he wrote the brethren... | |
 | Benjamin F. Arrington - Essex County (Mass.) - 1922 - 550 pages
...entered the school of our Saviour Christ, or of John Baptist, his harbinger, if he was ever there, had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no...soon fired; so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper. The fire of his passion soon kindled, and... | |
 | National Americana Society - United States - 1922 - 784 pages
...entered the school of our Saviour Christ, or of John Baptist, his harbinger, if he was ever there, had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no...soon fired ; so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper. The fire of his passion soon kindled, and... | |
 | Essex Institute - Essex County (Mass.) - 1882 - 328 pages
...the 7 Thornton, landing at Cape Anne, Tor text of Patent nnd interesting observations thereon, 31-47. cloak rather than needlessly contend for the coat,...soon fired ; so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature, yet of very hot and angry temper. The fire of his passion soon kindled and blown... | |
 | Justin Winsor - Duxbury (Mass.) - 2013 - 372 pages
...entered into the school of Christ, or of John the Baptist ; or if ever he was there, he had forgotten the first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to...soon fired ; so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very small stature, yet of a very hot and angry temper. The fire of his passion soon kindled, and blown... | |
 | Frederick Hiram Clark - 1888 - 470 pages
...the colony. Miles Standish was the military leader, a small man, but renowned for his courage. "As a little chimney is soon fired, so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a hot and angry temper.''] 65. The growth of Plymouth was steady but never... | |
 | Unesco - Broadcasting - 1888 - 462 pages
...the colony. Miles Standish was the military leader, a small man, but renowned for his courage. "As a little chimney is soon fired, so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature, yet of a hot and angry temper."] 65. The growth of Plymouth was steady but never... | |
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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... 
