 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1869 - 508 pages
...1631, Cotton Mather describes Winthrop as distributing, with signal humanity, " the last handful of meal in the barrel unto a poor man distressed by the wolf at the door ; " and " at that instant," he adds, " they spied a ship arrived at the harbour's mouth, laden with... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Puritans - 1869 - 514 pages
...1631, Cotton Mather deseribes Winthrop as distributing, with signal humanity,-" the last handful of meal in the barrel unto a poor man distressed by the wolf at the door ; " and " at that instant," he adds, " they spied a ship arrived at the harbour's mouth, laden with... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1876 - 694 pages
...taking 1 Mather says (Magnalia, Book II. Chap. IV. §G) that, when this vessel appeared, the Governor " was distributing the last handful of the meal in the...unto a poor man distressed by the wolf at the door." Contemporary relations are more to the purpose, as those of Clap and Johnson, who came with Winthrop's... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1882 - 698 pages
...that, when this vessel appeared, the Governor " was distributin<* the last handful of the meal in the o barrel unto a poor man distressed by the wolf at the door." Contemporary relations are more to the purpose, as those of Clap and Johnson, who came with Winthrop's... | |
 | Giuseppe Mattei, Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil) - Wales - 1887 - 608 pages
...immediately before the arrival of the Lyon, Governor Winthrop " was distributing the last handful of Meal in the barrel unto a poor man distressed by the wolf at the door." The grateful Pilgrims held a solemn day of thanksgiving for the timely and welcome relief from their... | |
 | Nina Moore Tiffany - Adventure and adventurers - 1888 - 228 pages
...Cotton Mather tells the story : " On February 5th, . . . when he was distributing the last handful of meal in the barrel unto a poor man distressed by the...harbour's mouth, laden with provisions for them all." The ship at the harbor's mouth was the " Lyon ; " hunger was past, and a Thanksgiving Day was kept... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - Poetry - 1908 - 748 pages
...22, 1631, to implore divine succor. On the 21st. as Winthrop " was distributing the last handful of meal in the barrel unto a poor man distressed by the...harbour's mouth, laden with provisions for them all." The ship was the Lion, and the fast day was changed into a day of feasting and thanksgiving, THE FIRST... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...seen, carried him cheerfully through those expenses. Once it was observable that, on February 5, 1630,' levated high above his vassals came the Inca Atahuallpa,...made of massive gold of inestimable value. The pal harbor's mouth, laden with provisions for them all. Yea, the governor sometimes made his own private... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch - Religion - 1975 - 264 pages
...seen, carried him cheerfully through those expenses. Once it was observable that on February 5, 1630, when he was distributing the last handful of the "meal...door, at that instant they spied a ship arrived at the harbor's mouth laden with provisions for them all. Yea, the governor sometimes made his own private... | |
 | James G. Moseley - Massachusetts - 1992 - 206 pages
...it with." The story of the arrival of a ship loaded with provisions at the very moment when Winthrop was "distributing the last handful of the meal in...unto a poor man distressed by the 'wolf at the door'" elicits a worldly-wise aphorism from Mather: "Yea, the governour sometimes made his own private purse... | |
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... wolf at the door," at that instant they spied a ship arrived at the harbour's mouth, laden with provisions for them all. 
