...greatness of his soul. When sentence of death was passed upon him, he observed "that he liked it well, for he should die before his heart was soft, or he had spoken anything unworthy of himself." Quite a change from Michael Wigglesworth's "hellish fiends"! There is a catch, to be sure. For all...

...greatness of his soul. When sentence of death was passed upon him, he observed "that he liked it well, for he should die before his heart was soft, or he had spoken anything unworthy of himself." Quite a change from Michael Wigglesworth's "hellish fiends"! There is a catch, to be sure. For all...

...captured and sentenced to be beheaded. Informed of his fate he remarked stoically that he was happy to go "before his heart was soft, or he had spoken anything unworthy of himself." Hundreds of Indians captured were not executed but sold into slavery, many of them to the West Indies....

...Stonington and shot. When told his sentence was death he replied, he liked it well for he wished to die before his heart was soft or he had spoken anything unworthy of h|mip«>if, choosing death in preference to slavery. It is said the Narragansett Bedmen were the strongest,...

...war as himself and that he desired to hear no more thereof." When told he'd been sentenced to die, he replied that "he liked it well, that he should die before his heart was soft or had spoken anything unworthy of himself." Just prior to his execution in front of a Pequot firing squad,...

...and that he desired to hear no more thereof. And when he was told, his sentence was to die, he said he liked it well ; that he should die before his heart was soft, or he had spoken any thing unworthy of himself. He told the English before they put him to death, that the killing him...

...christened that bloody war and waged it to the bloody end, and dying, could say, "That he liked it well, for he should die before his heart was soft, or he had spoken anything unworthy of himself." A trueborn prince of the land, he was crushed but never conquered, and he has won for himself a sullen...

...and that he desired to hear no more thereof. And when he was told his sentence was to die, he said, he liked it well, that he should die before his heart was soft, or had spoken any thing unworthy of himself. He fold the English before they put him to death, that the...

...would not accept of his life when offered him ; and when told that he was to die, said, " He liktd it well ; that he should die before his heart was soft, or Me had spoken any thing unworthy of himself." He was afteiward shot at Stonington. Ana by autumn, this...