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Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain…
Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governor in Chief of the province of the Massachuset-Bay, New England, containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed by him / written by one intimately acquainted with him.Pietas in patriam the life of His Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt. late Captain General and Governour in Chief of the province of the Massachuset-Bay, New England, containing the memorable changes undergone, and actions performed by him / written by one intimately acquainted with him.
London: printed by Sam. Bridge for Nath. Hiller, 1697
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The first Rise of this Indian War, had hitherto been almost as Dark as that of the River Nilus: 'Tis true, if any Wild English did rashly begin to provoke and affront the Indians, yet the Indians had a fairer way to obtain Justice, than by Bloodshed: However, upon the New-English Revolution, the State of the War ⟨p. 85⟩became wholly New: The Government then employed all possible ways to procure a good Understanding with the Indians, but all the English Offers, Kindnesses, Courtesies were barbarously requited by them, with New Acts of the most perfidious Hostility. Notwithstanding all this, there were still some Nice People, that had their scruples about the Justice of the War; but upon this New Submission of the Indians, if ever those Rattle-snakes (the only Rattle-snakes, which, they say, were ever seen to the Northward of Merrimack-River) should stir again, the most scrupulous Persons in the World must own, That it must be the most unexceptionable piece of Justice in the World for to extinguish them.
The first Rise of this Indian War, had hitherto been almost as Dark as that of the River Nilus: 'Tis true, if any Wild English did rashly begin to provoke and affront the Indians, yet the Indians had a fairer way to obtain Justice, than by Bloodshed: However, upon the New-English Revolution, the State of the War ⟨p. 85⟩became wholly New: The Government then employed all possible ways to procure a good Understanding with the Indians, but all the English Offers, Kindnesses, Courtesies were barbarously requited by them, with New Acts of the most perfidious Hostility. Notwithstanding all this, there were still some Nice People, that had their scruples about the Justice of the War; but upon this New Submission of the Indians, if ever those Rattle-snakes (the only Rattle-snakes, which, they say, were ever seen to the Northward of Merimack-River) should stir again, the most scrupulous Persons in the World must own, That it must be the most unexceptionable piece of Justice in the World for to extinguish them.