Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.Collection: Patience
The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.Collection: Design
I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.Collection: Peace
Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.Collection: Youth
I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians.Collection: Christian
We pray that the deceitful race - such hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ - be not allowed to further infect and trouble this new colony.Collection: Names
The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.Collection: Loss
Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.Collection: Peace
It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.Collection: Hands
The people are grown very wild and loose in their morals.Collection: People
Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.Collection: Littles