But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
William BradfordAnd for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
William BradfordAll great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.
William Bradford