Quote #5
The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.
More from William Bradford
- Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.
- But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
- Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought the…
- Cold comfort to fill their hungry bellies.
- So they committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed.
- Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.
- They knew they were pilgrims.
- Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things t…