Quote#Time
At last, upon those inducements, some well-disposed Brownists, as…
Quote byJohn Smith · 1580–1631
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Capt. John Smith, p. 941.
English (original)
At last, upon those inducements, some well-disposed Brownists, as they are termed, with some Gentlemen and Merchants of Layden and Amsterdam, to save charges would try their own conclusions, though with great loss and much misery till time had taught them to see their own error; for such humorists will never believe well, till they bee beaten with their own rod.
— John Smith
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