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| a9b0690 | THE PILGRIMS HAD BEEN DRIVEN by fiercely held spiritual beliefs. They had sailed across a vast and dangerous ocean to a wilderness where, against impossible odds, they had made a home. The purity of the Old Comers' purpose and the magnitude of their accomplishments could never again be repeated. From the start, the second generation suffered under the assumption that, as their ministers never tired of reminding them, they were "the degenera.. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| a10ca15 | It may have been true that from a strictly legal standpoint there was nothing wrong with how Winslow and the other Plymouth officials acquired large amounts of Pokanoket land. And yet, from a practical and moral standpoint, the process removed the Indians from their territory as effectively--and as cheaply--as driving them off at gunpoint | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 51bb13b | They were too focused on their own inner lives to appreciate the subtleties of character that might have alerted them to the true motives of those who did not share in their beliefs. Time and time again during their preparations to sail for America, the Pilgrims demonstrated an extraordinary talent for getting duped. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| c97b98a | Atrocities were expected in both European and Native conflicts. And yet, the English had to admit that compared to what was typical of European wars, the Indians had conducted themselves with surprising restraint. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 4dc3e73 | As Smith later wrote, much of the suffering that lay ahead for the Pilgrims could easily have been avoided if they had seen fit to pay for his services or, at the very least, consult his map. "[S]uch humorists [i.e., fanatics] will never believe...," he wrote, "till they be beaten with their own rod." | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 00e5181 | Countless Victorian-era engravings notwithstanding, the Pilgrims did not spend the day sitting around a long table draped with a white linen cloth, clasping each other's hands in prayer as a few curious Indians looked on. Instead of an English affair, the First Thanksgiving soon became an overwhelmingly Native celebration when Massasoit and a hundred Pokanokets (more than twice the entire English population of Plymouth) arrived at the settl.. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| d0b40ac | It has been estimated that at least a thousand Indians were sold into slavery during King Philip's War, with over half the slaves coming from Plymouth Colony alone. By the end of the war, Mount Hope, once the crowded Native heart of the colony, was virtually empty of inhabitants. Fifty-six years after the sailing of the Mayflower, the Pilgrims' children had not only defeated the Pokanokets in a devastating war, they had taken conscious, met.. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 5146bfb | Stephen Hopkins was making his second trip to America. Eleven years earlier in 1609 he had sailed on the Sea Venture for Virginia, only to become shipwrecked in Bermudaan incident that became the basis for Shakespeare's The Tempest. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 1569919 | In a letter hastily written to a friend in London, Cushman saw only doom and disaster ahead. "Friend, if ever we make a plantation God works a miracle, especially considering how scant we shall be of victuals, and most of all un-united amongst ourselves and devoid of good tutors and regiment. Violence will break all. Where is the meek and humble spirit of Moses?" | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 919f939 | That Church according to Church is too brave, too cunning, and too good to be true is beside the point. America was destined to become a nation of self-fashioned and self-promoting men. What makes his story so special, I believe, is that he shows us how the nightmare of wilderness warfare might one day give rise to a society that promises liberty and justice for all. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| df4c5e9 | For the future welfare of the settlement, it was essential that all the colonists--Leideners and Strangers alike--learn to live together as best they could. This nonjudgmental attitude did not come naturally to the Leideners. As Separatists, they considered themselves godly exceptions to the vast, unredeemed majority of humankind. A sense of exclusivity was fundamental to how they perceived themselves in the world. And yet there is evidence.. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 74701f3 | In April, Bradford had decided that each household should be assigned its own plot to cultivate, with the understanding that each family kept whatever it grew. The change in attitude was stunning. Families were now willing to work much harder than they had ever worked before. In previous years, the men had tended the fields while the women tended the children at home. "The women now went willingly into the field," Bradford wrote, "and took .. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| be49dd2 | A total of about 200,000 Americans had served in the war, but that did not mean the rest of the country of about 3 million would show them any gratitude or respect. Americans in 1783 were desperate to put the trauma of the Revolution behind them, and these broken and penniless soldiers were a daily reminder of what they preferred to forget. "What scornful looks and hard words have I experienced," Martin wrote forty-seven years later. "I hop.. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 0b1e31e | In 1634, smallpox and influenza ravaged both the Indians and the English in the region. William Brewster, whose family had managed to survive the first terrible winter unscathed, lost two daughters, Fear and Patience, now married to Isaac Allerton and Thomas Prence, respectively. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 8481cba | resumed | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| bd90f05 | Lee wrote, "[and] lament with you that fatal indecision of mind which in war is a much greater disqualification than stupidity or even want of personal courage. . . . Eternal defeat and miscarriage must attend the man of the best parts if cursed with indecision." Washington was as aware as" | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 8a455ae | It was not as if the rest of the nation was suffering from want. .. Americans were experiencing a war-related economic boom. these same citizens might be enjoying an unusual level of prosperity, but they were not aboutto share it with their struggling national government and their even more beleaguered army. Without an ability to raise its own taxes, the Continental Congress had been printing its own money to pay for the war. But after five.. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| c602803 | to voice private sympathies in the context of an official proceeding would require Washington to become, in his own words, 'lost to my own character.' Here, in this reference to character, Washington hit upon the essential difference between himself and Arnold. Washington's sense of right and wrong existed outside the impulsive demands of his own self-interest. Rules mattered to Washington. Even though Congress had made his life miserable f.. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 45f986b | In the years after the War of Independence, historian paid scant attention to the Siege of Fort Mifflin, primarily because, Martin believed 'there was no Washington, Putnam, or Wayne there.' 'Had there been,' he conjecture, 'the affair would have been extolled to the skies.' As Martin and the five hundred defenders of Fort Mifflin had learned first-hard, 'great men get great priase, little men nothing. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 4393b12 | Then I'll haste to wed a sailor, and send him off to sea, For a life of independence, is the pleasant life for me. But every now and then I shall like to see his face, For it always seems to me to beam with manly grace, With his brow so nobly open, and his dark and kindly eye, Oh my heart beats fondly towards him whenever he is nigh. But when he says "Goodbye my love, I'm off across the sea," First I cry for his departure, then laugh becaus.. | strong-women | Nathaniel Philbrick | |
| f17e17c | During the forty-five months of World War II, the United States lost just under 1 percent of its adult male population; during the Civil War the casualty rate was somewhere between 4 and 5 percent; during the fourteen months of King Philip's War, Plymouth Colony lost close to 8 percent of its men. | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| ee3b7b8 | and the University of Pennsylvania, he penned a memoir of his time in America. Shortly after marrying the twenty-eight-year-old Marie Brigitte Plunkett, | Nathaniel Philbrick | ||
| 26b1801 | In this country, a federal grand jury probe is the closest thing to Courts of Inquisition or a Star Chamber that exists. There are few rights, nothing that comes close to cross-examination, and no right to counsel inside the jury room. There are no real rules of evidence. The only thing they can't do is torture you, and on that you must take the government's word. | Steve Martini | ||
| 9f3b666 | to exonerate him. Given the personalities involved, Skarpellos and Lama, I would suddenly discover that Tony was playing cribbage with a dozen elderly matrons the night Ben was killed. "Suspects are your job," I tell Nelson. "I think we're satisfied with the defendant we have. All we need to know is who helped her. Who carried the body, used the shotgun," he says. "It's an offer made to fail. Even if she were willing to enter a plea to a cr.. | Steve Martini | ||
| b40cf81 | What Harry means is, he has a taste for "felonious voyeurism." It happens. Lawyers, judges, cops, and jurors all find themselves titillated from time to time by the stories of violence, drugs, and sex. The criminal side of the law provides a window on the dark side of life that exists nowhere else." | Steve Martini | ||
| 9634347 | law to exclude Mr. Rath, it can exercise its | Steve Martini | ||
| 8e4bded | What made him mad was the constant drumming on CNN, telling everybody that the economy was just fine. The news media, or whatever they were calling themselves these days, had become nothing but a mouthpiece for the federal government, parroting press releases from the White House. If the president took a crap in public, they'd report that he shit gold bricks. If | Steve Martini | ||
| 7072f79 | The outward and visible way in which we move through our daily round--the time, creative energy, emotion, attitude, and attention with which we endow our tasks--is how we elevate the mundane to the transcendent. Moments of illumination aren't just experienced by saints, mystics, and poets. | Sarah Ban Breathnach | ||
| 74413b2 | I've been told by people that I'm shaped kind of like a garbage can, but I don't know if that's the truth, or just some kind of an insult. | John Swartzwelder | ||
| 6f22aea | I indicated that I had some free time at the moment and was willing to investigate what sounded like a most important case. "How much do you charge?" he asked. "$500 a day, plus expenses." "Will the expenses make it less?" "Possibly, but in my experience expenses usually add to the total." He thought about this for a moment, then frowned. "Well, I suppose I should just forget about it then. Spending $500 a day to find something worth $20 wo.. | John Swartzwelder | ||
| cbbe077 | He told me the crooks used this place for more than just a dumping ground for undesirables. He said they also had a lot of food stored here in case there was ever a nuclear war. That way they could insure that in the future there would still be criminals. | John Swartzwelder | ||
| 4b867f4 | remote viewing is the ability to produce information that is correct about a place, event, person, object, or concept which is located somewhere else in time/space, and which is completely blind to the remote viewer and others taking part in the process of collecting the information. | Joseph McMoneagle | ||
| 8f097dc | Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dare to take the risk to let others know what we are living. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 389b43f | But in Solitude, we can pay attention to our inner self | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 871428c | Have courage" therefore means "Let your center speak." | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| e6d64fd | Yet why all this resistance? Why this powerful attraction to the darkness? Jesus says, "Everybody who does wrong hates the light and avoids it, to prevent his actions from being shown up; but whoever does the truth comes out into the light, so that what he is doing may plainly appear as done in God" (John 3:20-21). That is an answer to my question. I do often prefer my darkness to God's light. I prefer to hang on to my sinful ways because t.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| a47cebe | When we worry, we have our hearts in the wrong place. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| f943d37 | We are called to witness, always with our lives and sometimes with our words, to the great things God has done for us. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 5d7ab13 | Life in the Spirit of Jesus is therefore a life in which Jesus' coming into the world--his incarnation, his death, and resurrection--is lived out by those who have entered into the same obedient relationship to the Father which marked Jesus' own life. Having become sons and daughters as Jesus was Son, our lives become a continuation of Jesus' mission. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 01c6716 | The Creator of the galaxies lives, whispers uniquely good things about us in our hearts, and urges us to rise up and use our freedom to become compassionate peacemakers in our world. This bond of love that touches each one of our lives from the very beginning of our creation to the very end of time and beyond is our original blessing. When you and I are home in this relationship, we find ourselves in the heart of the One that Jesus addresse.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| d380a9c | Spiritual reading, therefore, is slow, deliberate, meditative reading in which we allow the words to penetrate our heart and question our spirit. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| 0f06723 | The return to the "Father from whom all fatherhood takes its name" allows me to let my dad be no less than the good, loving, but limited human being he is, and to let my heavenly Father be the God whose unlimited, unconditional love melts away all resentments and anger and makes me free to love beyond the need to please or find approval." | fatherhood god parents | Henri J.M. Nouwen | |
| 794b504 | we are usually surrounded by so much inner and outer noise that it is hard to truly hear our God when he is speaking to us. | Henri J.M. Nouwen | ||
| aa743d5 | More enslaving than our occupations, however, are our preoccupations. To be pre-occupied means to fill our time and place long before we are there. This is worrying in the more specific sense of the word. It is a mind filled with "ifs." We say to ourselves, "What if I get the flu? What if I lose my job? What if my child is not home on time? What if there is not enough food tomorrow? What if I am attacked? What if a war starts? What if the w.. | Henri J.M. Nouwen |