| John Frost - 1854 - 738 pages
...to be " the most plentiful, sweet, fruitful, and wholesome of all the world ;" and the people " the most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the golden age." The desire to possess so delightful a region aroused a spirit... | |
| 1855 - 670 pages
...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,...such as live after the manner of the golden age." The report which they made of their voyage was highly gratifying to the Queen, who, delighted with the... | |
| 1855 - 654 pages
...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,...such as live after the manner of the golden age." Having obtained all the information they could of the continent, the course of the coast, the rivers... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1868 - 948 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 the kingdom... | |
| Frederick Freeman - 1860 - 842 pages
...Arcadian hospitality ; " — and further, upon the authority of Sir Walter Raleigh, " 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." — The traits thus prominent, it is not presuming too much... | |
| Jacob Abbott - 1860 - 302 pages
...people, they said afterward in their report, "most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile, treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age." STOEY OP A WRECK. While the English party were upon this island of Roanokc they were told by the natives... | |
| Goldwin Smith - 1861 - 230 pages
...with as much bounty, after their manner, as they could possibly devise; and that they found them a people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the golden age." These loving entertainments and this golden age were soon... | |
| Goldwin Smith - 1861 - 248 pages
...with as much bounty, after their manner, as they could possibly devise ; and that they found them a people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the golden age." These loving entertainments and this golden age were soon... | |
| James Hamilton Fyfe - 1863 - 286 pages
...approached. Some trifling presents gained the confidence of this simple people, who are described as " most gentle, loving, and faithful ; void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the golden age." Further acquaintance proved that simplicity might be combined... | |
| Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1868 - 338 pages
...three short years the pleasant region in which Captain Barlow had been generously entertained by " a people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of...such as live after the manner of the golden age," had become a wilderness, haunted only by a few Indians turned into savages by English cruelty, and... | |
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