A fleet of ten or twelve vessels, with many hundred passengers, left England about the same time; for a multitude of people, who were discontented with the king's government and oppressed by the bishops, were flocking over to the
New World. One of the vessels in the fleet was that same Mayflower which had carried the Puritan Pilgrims to Plymouth.
This
new world has already enriched the lives of MILLIONS of Americans who are able to compete and win in it.
God is merciful, Nature is kind, Love is true, in the
New World as well as the Old.
I feel that I should like to close my eyes and wake up in a
new world, and start all over again."
That is one of the first heart-beating surprises that come upon the boy Columbus, as he sets out to discover the
New World of woman; and indeed his surprise has not seldom deepened into admiration, as he has found that not only does woman eat, but frequently eats a lot.
Among these I found a treasure in Curtis's two books, the 'Nile Notes of a Howadji,' and the 'Howadji in Syria.' I already knew him by his 'Potiphar Papers,' and the ever-delightful reveries which have since gone under the name of 'Prue and I;' but those books of Eastern travel opened a
new world of thinking and feeling.
He had never been in a railway train until the morning when we set out together to try our fortunes in a
new world.
If he had indeed left London intending to reach the
New World, he would naturally take the route via India, which was less watched and more difficult to watch than that of the Atlantic.
I liked the picture of him starting at the age of forty-seven, when most men have already settled comfortably in a groove, for a
new world. I saw him, the sea gray under the mistral and foam-flecked, watching the vanishing coast of France, which he was destined never to see again; and I thought there was something gallant in his bearing and dauntless in his soul.
My brain had become so alert and eager, so quickened by the wonder of the
new world the books had discovered to it, that it now suffered all the misery of stagnancy and inaction.
Despite the approach of winter, the sun shone brightly, and bathed in its radiant light that earth which three of its denizens were about to abandon for a
new world.
Could they close their eyes when so near this
new world? No!
New World - the hemisphere that includes North America and South America