Modern History Sourcebook:
William Bradford:
from 英文个人简历History of Plymouth Plantation, c. 1650
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lycanBradford was one of the leaders of the English Puritan Separatists who we now call "The Pilgrims." This history was his personal journal, completed around 1650, after he had rved some 35 years as governor of the colony. The first excerpt describes his feelings as he is on The Mayflower in 1620, on the night before they land to start their puritan colony, the first utopian experiment in the Americas.
∙On the Mayflower绯闻女孩 第三季 1620
∙How they sought a place of habitation 1620
∙The Mayflower Compact 1620
∙Treaty with the Indians 1621
∙New governor, first marriage 1621
∙First harvest 1621
∙Private and communal farming 1623
On the Mayflower
嫦娥四号探测器是在我国哪里发射Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blesd the God of Heaven who had brought them over the fast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miries thereof, again to t their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element. And no marvel if they were thus joyful, eing wi Seneca was so affected with sailing a few miles on the coast of his own Italy, as he affirmed, that he had rather remain twenty years on his way by land than pass by a to any place in a short time, so tedious and dreadful was the same unto him.
But here I cannot but stay and make a pau, and stand half amazed at this poor people's prent condition; and so I think will the reader, too, when he well considers the same. Being thus pasd the vast ocean, and a a of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembered by that which went before), they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh their weatherbeaten bodies; no hous or much less towns to repair to, to ek for succor. It is recorded in Scripture as a mercy to the Apostle and his shipwrecked company, that the barbarians showed them no small kindness in refreshing them, but the savage barbarians, when they met with them (as after will appear) were readier to fill their sides full of arrows than otherwi. And for the ason it was winter, and they know that the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to arch an unknown coast. Besides, what could they e but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men--and what multitudes there might be of them they knew not. Neither could they, as it were, go up to the top of Pisgah to view from this wilderness a more goodly country to feed their hopes; for which
way soever they turned their eyes (save upward to the heavens) they could have little solace or content in respect of any outward objects. For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weatherbeaten face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, reprented a wild and savage hue. If they looked behind them, there was the mighty ocean which they had pasd and was now as a main bar and gulf to parate them from all the civil parts of the world. If it be said they had a ship to succor them, it is true; but what heard they daily from the master and company? But that with speed they should look out a place (with their shallop) where they would be, at some near distance; for the ason was such that he would not stir from thence till a safe harbor was discovered by them, where they would be, and he might go without danger; and that victuals consumed space but he must and would keep sufficient for themlves and their return. Yea, it was muttered by some that if they got not a place in time, they would turn them and their goods ashore and leave them. Let it also be considered what weak hopes of supply and succor they left behind them, that might bear up their minds in this sad condition and trials they were under; and they could not but be very small. It is true, indee
凤凰学习网d, the affections and love of their brethren at Leyden was cordial and entire towards them, but they had little power to help them or themlves; and how the ca stood between them and the merchants at their coming away hath already been declared. 期待英文
What could now sustain them but the Spirit of God and His grace? May not and ought not the children of the fathers rightly say: "Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness; but they cried unto the Lord, and He heard their voice and looked on their adversity," etc. "Let them therefore prai the Lord, becau He is good: and his mercies endure forever. Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, show how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered in the dert wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both hungry and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them." "Let them confess before the Lord His lovingkindness and His wonderful works before the sons of men." duality
How they sought a place of habitation (1620)
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善意的谎言的好处Being thus arrived at Cape Cod the 11th of November, and necessity calling them to look out a place for habitation (as well as the master's and mariner's importunity); they having brought a large shallop with them out of England, stowed in quarters in the ship, they now got her out and t their carpenters to work to trim her up; but being much bruid and shattered in the ship with foul weather, they saw she would be long in mending. Whereupon a few of them tendered themlves to go by land and discover tho nearest places, whilst the shallop was in mending; and the rather becau as they went into that harbor there emed to be an opening some two or three leagues off, which the master judged to be a river. It was conceived there might be some danger in the attempt, yet eing them resolute, they were permitted to go, being sixteen of them well armed under the conduct of Captain Standish, having such instructions given them as was thought meet.
They t forth the 15 of November; and when they had marched about the space of a mile by the aside, they espied five or six persons with a dog coming towards them, who were savages; but they fled from them and ran up into the woods, and the English followe
d them, partly to e if they could speak with them, and partly to discover if there might not be more of them lying in ambush. But the Indians eing themlves thus followed, they again forsook the woods and ran away on the sands as hard as they could, so as they could not come near them but followed them by the track of their feet sundry miles and saw that they had come the same way. So, night coming on, they made their rendezvous and t out their ntinels, and rested in quiet that night; and the next morning followed their track till they had headed a great creek and so left the sands, and turned another way into the woods. But they still followed them by guess, hoping to find their dwellings; but they soon lost both them and themlves, falling into such thickets as were ready to tear their clothes and armor in pieces; but were most distresd for want of drink. But at length they found water and refreshed themlves, being the first New England water they drunk of, and was now in great thirst as pleasant unto them as wine or beer had been in foretimes.
