Midterm Flashcards
“Another requisition was presented, who would be capable to secure the woman from the terrors of the great water, but none was able to comply except a large turtle came forward and made proposal to the to endure her lasting weight, which was accepted.”
“The Iroquois Creation Story”:
“The good mind was not contented to remain in a dark situation, and he was anxious to create a great light in the dark world; but the bad mind was desirous that the world should remain in a natural state.”
“The Iroquois Creation Story”:
“In it there are many harbors on the coast of the sea, beyond comparison with others which I know in Christendom, and many rivers, good and large, which is marvelous.”
“Letter to Santangel Regarding the First Voyage”: Columbus
“All are most beautiful, of a thousand shapes, and all are accessible and filled with trees of a thousand kinds and tall, and they seem to touch the sky.
“Letter to Santangel Regarding the First Voyage”: Columbus
I bartered with these Indians in combs I made for them and in bows, arrows, and nets.
“The Relation of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca”: Cabeza de Vaca
We had come from the sunrise, they from the sunset; we healed the sick, they killed the sound; we came naked and barefoot, they clothed, horsed, and lanced; we coveted nothing but gave whatever we were given, while they robbed whomever they found and bestowed nothing on anyone.
“The Relation of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca”: Cabeza de Vaca
“If a man work but three days in seven he may get more than he can spend, unless he will be excessive.”
“A Description of New England”: Smith
“The master by this may quickly grow rich; these may learn their trades themselves, to do the like; to a general and an incredible benefit, for king, and country, master, and servant.”
“A Description of New England”: Smith
“Being thus arrived in a good harbor and brought safe to land, the fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven,, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all their perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth.”
“Of Plymouth Plantation”: Bradford
“He directed them how to set their corn, where to take the fish , and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit and never left them till he died.”
“Of Plymouth Plantation”: Bradford
“By the first of these laws man as he was enabled so withal [is] commanded to love his neighbor as himself.”
“A Model of Christian Charity”: Winthrop
“Lastly, when there is no other means whereby our Christian brother may be relieved in his distress, we must help him beyond our ability, rather that tempt God in putting him upon help by miraculous or extraordinary means.”
“A Model of Christian Charity”: Winthrop
“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of the people are upon us , so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.”
“A Model of Christian Charity”: Winthrop
“Then coming out, beheld a space The flame consume my dwelling place. And when I could no longer look, I blest His name that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust.”
“Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House”: Bradstreet
“Under thy roof no guest shall sit,
Not at thy table eat a bit.”
“Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House”: Bradstreet
“There were five persons taken in one house; the father, and the mother and a sucking child, they knocked on the head; the other two they took and carried away alive.”
“From a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”: Rowlandson
“One of my elder sister’s children, named William had then his leg broken, which the Indians perceiving, they knocked him on [his] head.”
“From a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”: Rowlandson
“They would eat horse’s guts, and ears, and all sorts of wild birds which they could catch, also bear, venison, beaver, tortoise, frogs, squirrels, dogs, skunks, rattlesnakes, yea, the very bark of trees; besides all sorts of creatures, and provision which they plundered from the English.”
“From a Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”: Rowlandson
“Make me, O Lord, Thy Spinning Wheel complete,
Thy Holy Word my Distaff make for me.”
“Huswifery”: Taylor
Then clothe therewith mine Understanding, Will,
Affections, Judgment, Conscience, Memory,
My Words, and Actions, that their shine may fill
My ways with glory and Thee glorify.”
“Huswifery”: Taylor
“If the devils now can strike the minds of men with any poisons of so fine a composition and operation, that scores of innocent people shall unite, in confessions of a crime, which we see actually committed, it is a thing prodigious, beyond the wonders of the former ages, and it threatens no less than a sort of a solution upon the world.”
“From the Wonders of the Invisible World”: Mather
“VIII. One Foster, who confessed her own share in the witchcraft for which the prisoner stood indicted, affirmed that she had seen the prisoner at some of their witch-meetings, and that it was this Carrier, who persuaded her to be a witch.”
“From the Wonders of the Invisible World”: Mather
“It shook with his measured breath as he gave out the psalm; it threw its obscurity between him and the holy page, as he read the Scriptures; and while he prayed, the veil lay heavily on his uplifted countenance. Did he seek to hide it from the dread Being whom he was addressing?”
“The Minister’s Black Veil”: Hawthorne
“The subject had reference to secret sin, and those sad mysteries which we hide from our nearest and dearest, and would fain conceal from our own consciousness, even forgetting that the Omniscient can detect the.”
“The Minister’s Black Veil”: Hawthorne
“What, but the mystery which it obscurely typifies, has made this piece of crape so awful? When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best-beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived, and die! I look around me, and lo! On every visage a black veil!
“The Minister’s Black Veil”: Hawthorne
“That the reason why they are not fallen already, and do not fall now, is only that God’s appointed time is not come. For it is said that when that due time, or appointed times comes, their foot shall slide.”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”: Edwards
“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider’s web would have to stop a fallen rock.”
“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”: Edwards
“Indians were hired to fight against Indians, and many of our people were destroyed. They also brought strong liquor amongst us. It was strong and powerful, and has slain thousands.”
“Reply to the Missionary Jacob Cram”: Jacket
“We understand that your religion is written in a book. If it was intended for us as well as you, why has not the Great Spirit given to us, and not only to us, but why did he not give to our forefathers, the knowledge of that book, with the means of understanding it rightly?”
“Reply to the Missionary Jacob Cram”: Jacket
“Brothers - The white men want more than our hunting grounds; they wish to kill our warriors; they would even kill our old men, women , and little ones.”
“Speech to the Osages”: Tecumseh
