We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age. Discovery and Exploration - Page 431by Alfred Brittain, George Edward Reed - 1903 - 506 pagesFull view - About this book
| Hugh Murray - America - 1829 - 558 pages
...discovery. They say, " the soil is the most plentiful, sweet, fruitful, and wholesome of all the world. We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the golden age." These reports enchanted Raleigh, and filled the whole kingdom... | |
| James Athearn Jones - Folklore - 1830 - 360 pages
...Captain, it is said that they were entertained with as much bounty as could possibly be devised. They found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful,...such as live after the manner of the golden age.— See Hakluyt. In the first sermon ever preached in New England, the preacher says of the Indians : "... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...as quite luxurious, and their bounty as without stint. To use the precise language of their report, "we found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful,...such as live after the manner of the golden age." Their manner of serving up their food was quite different to the Indians of more northern climes. This... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 pages
...quite luxurious, and their bounty as without stint. To use the precise language of their report, " we found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful,...such as live after the manner of the golden age." Their manner of serving up their food was quite different to the Indians of more northern climes. •.... | |
| George Bancroft - 1834 - 532 pages
...Granganimeo, father of Wingina, the king, with the refinements of Arcadian hospitality. " The people were most gentle, loving and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the golden age." They had no cares but to guard against the moderate cold... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1834 - 530 pages
...Granganimeo, father of Wingina, the king, with the refinements of Arcadian hospitality. " The people were most gentle, loving and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the golden age." They had no cares but to guard against the moderate cold... | |
| Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1836 - 530 pages
...maner, as they could possibly devise. We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful!, voide of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age. The people onley care howe to defend themselves from the cold in their short winter, and to feed themselves with... | |
| Isaac William Stuart - Classical education - 1836 - 234 pages
...rightful Queene and Princesse thereof." Here, in the words of the historian Ilakluyte, they found '• a people most gentle, loving and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and lived after the manner of the golden age." Then and here was the birth-place of this now mighty empire.... | |
| Saxe Bannister - Colonization - 1838 - 344 pages
...could not fail to lead to violences and injure the Indians, although at the outset described as " a people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the golden age." The colonists were many, their wives few; convicts, and... | |
| Caroline Howard Gilman - 1884 - 254 pages
...those of England, that the fruits, vegetables, fish and game were abundant, and that the people were " most gentle, loving and faithful, void of all guile and treason," and that they lived "after the manner of the golden age." Such reports, so verified, excited enthusiasm... | |
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