| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1815 - 694 lehte
...his right by the sword, but it seems both the litigants . had so much wit in their anger, as to wave the battle, each accounting himself to have done very •manfully in what was threatened ; so as in respect, not of what did, but what might have fallen out, the place to this day retains the formidable... | |
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1848 - 804 lehte
...defended his right by the sword, but it seems both the litigants had so much wit in their anger as to wave the battle, each accounting himself to have done very manfully in what was threatened ; so as in respect, not of what did, but what might have fallen out, the place to this day retains the formidable... | |
| William Hubbard - 1848 - 852 lehte
...defended his right by the sword, but it seems both the litigants had so much wit in their anger as to wave the battle, each accounting himself to have done very manfully in what was threatened ; so as in respect, not of what did, but what might have fallen out, the place to this day retains the formidable... | |
| 1848 - 450 lehte
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ] | |
| Austin Jacobs Coolidge, John Brainard Mansfield - 1860 - 372 lehte
...shedding blood there, about the possession of the land; "but," says the worthy Mr. Hubbard, "both the litigants had so much wit in their anger as to waive...have done very manfully in what was threatened; so as in respect merely of what might have fallen out, the place to this day retains the formidable name... | |
| New Hampshire - 1867 - 652 lehte
...his right by the sword ; but it seems both the litigants had so much wit in their anger, as to wave the battle, each accounting himself to have done very manfully in what was threatened ; so as in respect, not of what did, but what might have fallen out, the place to this day retains the formidable... | |
| Samuel Sidney McClure - 1883 - 596 lehte
...possession, and drew their swords. " But," says Rev. William Hubbard, in his " History of New England," "both litigants had so much wit in their anger as...waive the battle, each accounting himself to have done verv manfully in what was threatened. So, as in respect, — not of what did, but what might have fallen... | |
| John Ward Dean - 1887 - 542 lehte
...Capt. Wiggin intended to have defended his right by the fvvord, but it feems both the litigants had fo much wit in their anger as to waive the battle, each accounting himfelf to have done very manfully in what was threatened ; fo as in refpect, not of what they did,... | |
| |