 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...  A Beginner's History - Page 44by William Harrison Mace - 1921 - 494 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... | |
 | 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, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age.— See Hakluyt. In the first sermon ever preached... | |
 | 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, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age." Their manner of serving up their food was quite... | |
 | 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, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age." Their manner of serving up their food was quite... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1837 - 400 pages
...kindness, and with as much bounty — after their manner — as they could pos116 117 sibly 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 golden age. The people only care how to defend themselves... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - America - 1844 - 852 pages
...The soil," said they, " is the most fruitful, sweet, and plentiful and wholesome of all in 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... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1846 - 336 pages
...They declared the soil to be " the most plentiful, sweet, fruitful, and wholesome of all the world ;" 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 kindled all that enthusiasm which... | |
 | Orsamus Turner - Allegany County (N.Y.) - 1849 - 734 pages
...employ, in 1584, that they were entertained with as much bounty as they could possibly devise. They found the people most gentle, loving and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after toe manner of the golden age." The following is an extract from the first sermon... | |
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