Browsing named entities in George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.. You can also browse the collection for Wentworth or search for Wentworth in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
savage deserts of America, could hide and shelter them from the fury of the bishops. Rushworth, II. 410. Hazard, i. 420. Neal's Puritans. Nugent's Hampden. The words are from Milton, the Puritan poet; the greatest poet of our language. The pillory had become the bloody scene of human agony and mutilation, as an ordinary punishment; and Chap. X.} the friends of Laud jested on the sufferings which were to cure the obduracy of fanatics. The very genius of that nation of people, said Wentworth, leads them always to oppose, both civilly and ecclesiastically, all that ever authority ordains for them. They were provoked to the indiscretion of a complaint, and then involved in a persecution. They were imprisoned and scourged; their noses were slit, their ears were cut off; their cheeks were marked with a red-hot brand. But the lash, and the shears, and the glowing iron, could not destroy principles which were rooted in the soul, and which danger made it glorious to profess. The