 They had not a sufficient number of men wherewith to assault so strong and great a city. But Captain Morgan replied : If our number is small, our hearts are great. And the fewer persons we are, the more union and better shares we shall have in the spoil.  Chronological History of the West Indies - Page 83by Thomas Southey - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Charles Johnson - Brigands and robbers - 1813 - 556 pages
...surprise. To this some objected on account «f the ^fewness of their numbers, but the Captain replied : " If our number is small, our hearts are great, and the fewer persoas we are, the more union, and the better shares of the spoil." Stimulated with the hope of great... | |
 | Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin - Adventure and adventurers - 1853 - 506 pages
...not a sufficient number of men to assault so strong and great a city." But Captain Morgan replied, " If our number is small, our hearts are great ; and the fewer persons we are, the more union and better shares we shall have in the spoil." Hereupon, being stimulated with the hope of those vast riches... | |
 | Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin - Buccaneers - 1856 - 488 pages
...not a sufficient number of men to assault so strong and great a city." But Captain Morgan replied, "If our number is small, our hearts are great; and the fewer persons we are. the more union arid better shares we shall have in the spoil." Hereupon, being stimulated with the hope of those vast... | |
 | American literature - 1877 - 1236 pages
...to assault so strong and great a city, whereupon Morgan made a memorable and characteristic speech : "If our number is small our hearts are great. And the fewer persons we are the more union and better shares we shall have in the spoil." Puerto Velo— not far from Nombre di Dios, the scene of... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1877 - 364 pages
...successfully attack the town. Morgan's answer was characteristic. "If our numbers are small/' said he, "our hearts are great, and the fewer persons we are,...and the better shares we shall have in the spoil." The attack was settled. The city or town of Puerto Bello was in those days one of the strongest of... | |
 | 1878 - 490 pages
...strong and great a city, whereupon Morgan made a memorahle and characteristic speech: " If our numher is small our hearts are great. And the fewer persons we are the more union and hetter shares we shall have in the spoil." Puerto Velo — not far from Nomhre di Dios, the scene of... | |
 | Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin - Buccaneers - 1891 - 454 pages
...had not a sufficient number of men to assault so strong and great a city. But Captain Morgan replied, "If our number is small, our hearts are great; and the fewer persons we are, the more union and better shares we shall have in the spoil." Hereupon, being stimulated with the hope of those vast riches... | |
 | Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin - Buccaneers - 1893 - 600 pages
...sufficient number of men wherewith to assault so strong and great a city. But Captain Morgan replied : If our number is small, our hearts are great. And the fewer persons we are, the more union and better shares we shalf have in the spoil. Hereupon, being stimulated with the ambition of those vast... | |
 | John Masefield - Buccaneers - 1925 - 304 pages
...themselves too weak " to assault so strong and great a city." To this the plucky Welshman answered : " If our number is small, our hearts are great. And the fewer persons we are, the more union and better shares we shall have in the spoil." This answer, with the thought of " those vast riches they... | |
 | John Masefield - Buccaneers - 1906 - 424 pages
...themselves too weak " to assault so strong and great a city." To this the plucky Welshman answered : " If our number is small, our hearts are great. And the fewer persons we are, the more union and better shares we shall have in the spoil." This answer, with the thought of "those vast riches they... | |
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