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Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building - Page 35
by Ronald Niezen - 2000 - 274 pages
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New-England's Memorial

Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1669 - 562 pages
...The number they thus destroyed, was conceived to be above four hundred. At this time it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, and the...thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to enclose their enemies in their hands, and give them so speedy a victory over so proud, insulting,...
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New-England's Memorial

Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1826 - 498 pages
...The number they thus destroyed: was conceived to be above four hundred. At this time it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, and the...thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to enclose their enemies in their hands, and give them so speedy * Mistie Fort, near a river of...
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Collections, Volume 3

1835 - 348 pages
...run through with rapiers, &c. The number thus destroyed was about 400. At this time it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire and the...quenching the same, and horrible was the stink and the scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God,...
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Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society: Potter, E.R ..., Volume 3

Local history - 1835 - 484 pages
...The number thus destroyed was about 400. At this time it was a fearful sight to see them thus filing in the fire and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stink and the scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacnfice, and they gave the praise thereof to God,...
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Uncas and Miantonomoh: A Historical Discourse, Delivered at Norwich, (Conn ...

William Leete Stone - Indians of North America - 1842 - 226 pages
...religious hatred of the Indians, viewed and spoke of scenes like this. " At this time it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, and the...of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the scent thereof; but the victory seemed a great sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God, who...
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Hope Leslie: Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Indians of North America - 1842 - 276 pages
...the times, where we are told " the number destroyed was about four hundred ;" and " it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and the horrible scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof...
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Hope Leslie: Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Indians of North America - 1842 - 276 pages
...to see them thus frying in the fire, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and the horrible scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God." In the relations of their enemies, the courage of the Pequods was. distorted into ferocity, and their...
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Collections of the Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1847 - 406 pages
...The number they thus destroyed was conceived to be above four hundred. At this time, it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, and the...of blood quenching the same ; and horrible was the stench and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof...
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Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Volume 2

Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1847 - 396 pages
...The number they thus destroyed was conceived to be above four hundred. At this time, it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, and the...of blood quenching the same ; and horrible was the stench and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof...
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The Discoverers, Pioneers, and Settlers of North and South America from the ...

Henry Howard Brownell - America - 1853 - 734 pages
...that the number of the victims was nearer eight hundred. " It was a fearful sight," says old Morton, " to see them thus frying in the fire, and the streams...thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to enclose their enemies into their hands," &c. The distress of the friends of the slaughtered...
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