We were entertained with all love and kindness, and with as much bounty (after their manner) as they could possibly devise. We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the... The Heroes of Young America - Page 49by Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - 1877 - 318 pagesFull view - About this book
| Hugh Murray - 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 - 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 - 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. •.... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 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... | |
| George Bancroft - 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Robert W. Lincoln - 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... | |
| Saxe Bannister - 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... | |
| George Bancroft - 1841 - 368 pages
...the wife of Granganimeo, father of Wingina, the king, with 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." And yet it was added, that the wars of these guileless men... | |
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