 | George Rainsford Fairbanks - History - 1871 - 370 pages
...John Hawkins's expedition, who, after speaking of the condition in which he found the French, says: " Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...yield victuals sufficient, if they would have taken pains to get the same ; but they, being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows.... | |
 | George Rainsford Fairbanks - 1871 - 358 pages
...John Hawkins's expedition, who, after speaking of the condition in which he found the French, says: " Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...yield victuals sufficient, if they would have taken pains to get the same ; but they, being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows.... | |
 | Richard Hakluyt - 1893 - 344 pages
...they were bound before our coming, at their request we spared them one of our barks, of fifty ton 1. Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...yield victuals sufficient if they would have taken pains to get the same ; but they, being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows.... | |
 | Richard Hakluyt - America - 1893 - 350 pages
...they were bound before our coming, at their request we spared them one of our barks, of fifty ton '. Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...yield victuals sufficient if they would have taken pains to get the same; but they, being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brow's.... | |
 | Florian Alexander Mann - Florida - 1898 - 212 pages
...the war mentioned as resulting from the foraging expedition to the Indian villages, he relates that Laudonniere had not forty soldiers left unhurt. After...the ground doth yield victuals sufficient, if they had taken the pains to get the same; but they being soldiers desired to live by the sweat of other... | |
 | George Rainsford Fairbanks - Florida - 1898 - 286 pages
...describes the condition in which they found the French, says : " Notwithstanding the great want which the Frenchmen had, the ground doth yield victuals sufficient, if they would have taken pains to get the same ; but they, being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows.... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1903 - 366 pages
...bound, before our coming, at their request, we spared them [for 700 crowns] one of our barks of 50 tons. Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...yield victuals sufficient, if they would have taken pains to get the same ; but they being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - America - 1903 - 698 pages
...they were bound before our coming, at their request we spared them one of our barques of fifty ton. Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...yield victuals sufficient if they would have taken pains to get the same; but they, being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows;... | |
 | Alfred Brittain, George Edward Reed - History - 1903 - 640 pages
...they were bound before our coming, at their request we spared them one of our barques of fifty ton. Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...yield victuals sufficient if they would have taken pains to get the same; but they, being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows;... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - North America - 1903 - 664 pages
...they were bound before our coming, at their request we spared them one of our barques of fifty ton. Notwithstanding the great want that the Frenchmen...yield victuals sufficient if they would have taken pains to get the same ; but they, being soldiers, desired to live by the sweat of other men's brows... | |
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... his ship twenty barrels of meal and four pipes of beans, with divers other victuals and necessaries which he might conveniently spare; and to help them the better homewards, whither they were bound before our coming, at their request we spared them... 
