 | Bryan Edwards - Agriculture - 1793 - 544 pages
...come into thefe countries with a force, againft which, were " we inclined to reiift it, refiftance would be folly. We are '• all therefore at your mercy ; but if you are men, fubject to " mortality like ourfelves, you cannot be unapprized, that after " this life there is another,... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - Botany - 1793 - 532 pages
...countries with a force, agaiuft which, were " were we inclined to rcfift it, refiftance would CHAP. " be folly. We are all therefore at your mercy; " but if you are men, fubjeft to mortality like " ourfelves, you cannot be unapprized, that af" ter this life there is another,... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1805 - 464 pages
...addressed him as follows. " Whether you are divini" ties," (he observed), " or mortal men, we know riot. " You are come into these countries with a force, " against which, were we inclined to resist, resist" ance would be folly. We are all therefore at your " mercy ; but if you are men, subject to... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - Bahamas - 1806 - 452 pages
...presenting a basket of fruit, addressed him as follows. " Whether you are divini" ties," (he observed), " or mortal men, we know not* " You are come into these...force, " against which, were we inclined to resist, resist" ance would be folly. We are all therefore at your " mercy ; but if you are men, subject to... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - West Indies - 1819 - 644 pages
...presenting a basket of fruit, addressed him as follows. " Whether " you are divinities," he observed, " or mortal " men, we know not. You are come into these...subject to mortality like " ourselves, you cannot be unapprised, that after " this life there is another, wherein a very dif" ferent portion is allotted... | |
 | Samuel Farmar Jarvis - Delaware language - 1820 - 124 pages
...'' Whether you are divinities or mortal men," said an old man of Cuba to Columbus, " we know not — but if you are men, subject to mortality like ourselves, you cannot be unapprised, that after this life there is another, wherein a very different portion is allotted to... | |
 | 1820 - 538 pages
...Whether you are divinities or mortal men,' -said an old man of Cuba to Columbus, ' we know not — but if you are men, subject to mortality like ourselves, you cannot be unapprised, that after this life there is another, wherein a very different portion is allotted to... | |
 | James Buchanan - Indians of North America - 1824 - 480 pages
...°lent relati on re * I • : % RELIGION. 241 men," said an old ma^bf Cuba t^Columbus, " we know not — but if you are men, subject to mortality like ourselves,...wherein a very different portion is allotted to good andjpad men. If, thegefore, you expect to die, and believe, with us, that every OTO is to be., rewarded... | |
 | Israel Worsley - Indians - 1828 - 214 pages
...one day approached Columbus with great reverence, and presenting him with a basket of fruit, said, "You are come into these countries with a force against which, were we inclined to resist, resistance would be folly. We are all therefore at your mercy. But if you are men, subject to mortality... | |
 | Joseph Nightingale - Religions - 1835 - 878 pages
...' Whether you are divinities or mortal men," said an old man of Cuba to Columbus, ' we know not — but if you are men, subject to mortality like ourselves, you cannot be unapprised, that after this life there is another, wherein a very different portion is allotted to... | |
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Whether you are divinities or mortal men, we know not. You have come into these countries with a force against which, were we inclined to resist it, resistance would be folly: we are all therefore at your mercy. But if you are men subject to mortality... 
