| British and foreign sailors' society - 1840 - 428 Seiten
...to their virtues. — " Out of small beginnings," said Bradford, " great things have been produced ; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea, in some sort to our whole nation." " Let it not be grievous to... | |
| William Bradford - 1952 - 518 Seiten
...of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch - 1974 - 280 Seiten
...1630 annal, he lauds the Plymouth church for having been that 'one small candle' whose 'light here kindled hath shone to many, yea in some sort to our whole nation ; let the glorious name of Jehova have all the praise'.61 Proud he may have been, but also, we sense, sad and wistful. Writing... | |
| Andrew Delbanco - 1991 - 324 Seiten
...of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation." This passage has long been... | |
| Mark A. Noll - 1992 - 596 Seiten
...Plymouth Plantation, "greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many. yea in some sort to our whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah... | |
| Edmund Carpenter - 2007 - 132 Seiten
...beginnings," says Bradford, "greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing and gives being to all things that are; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea, in some sort to our whole nation. Let the glorious name of Jehovah... | |
| Bernard Brugière - 1995 - 344 Seiten
...du satanique : « and as one candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone into many, yea in some sort to our whole nation ; let the glorious name of Jehovah have all the praise »16. Mais le temps, c'est-à-dire la réalité, avec sa complexité, avec ses ambiguïtés vint bousculer... | |
| William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 Seiten
...that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah have all the praise. "; Toward the end of his life, William Bradford wrote in Of Plymouth Plantation: Though I am growne... | |
| Michael J. McHugh, Charles Morris, Edward J. Shewan - 1998 - 210 Seiten
...of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation; let the glorious name of Jehovah... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1871 - 578 Seiten
...of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are ; and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here § kindled hath shone to many ; yea, in some sort, to our whole nation. Let the glorious name... | |
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