 | Charles Alexander McMurry - 1904 - 288 pages
...friendly and they were entertained on the island of Roanoke by the king's mother. " 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 adventurers were pleased with the New World, and, without... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 702 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," says Barlow." And yet it was added, with singular want of... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1905 - 580 pages
...Perhaps it was on account of this excessive modesty on their part that the natives seemed to them to be " most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile...such as live after the manner of the golden age." The sandy soil of the seashore of North Carolina appeared to the explorers to be fully up to the standard... | |
 | Richard Hakluyt - 1905 - 594 pages
...of pastoral poets seem true. 'We found the people,' they report, 'most gentle, loving, The people of and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such...live ^™ after the manner of the Golden Age.' The King, or chief, being absent, his brother, with a retinue, received the visitors, and showed them every... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1905 - 362 pages
...and Albemarle Sounds, and in trafficking with the natives. " The people," wrote the mariners, " were most gentle, loving and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the golden age." On Roanoke Island the Englishmen were entertained, with... | |
 | Richard Hakluyt - 1905 - 508 pages
...of pastoral poets seem true. 'We found the people,' they report, 'most gentle, loving, The people of and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live j~ after the manner of the Golden Age.' The King, or chief, being absent, his brother, with a retinue,... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1906 - 226 pages
...true. ' We found the people,' they rer \^e Port, ' rnost gentle, loving, and faithful, void of Age. all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the Golden Age.' The King, or chief, being absent, his brother, with a retinue, received the visitors, and showed them every... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry, Mrs. Blanche Swett Mowry - 1906 - 492 pages
...reported that the soil was "the most plentiful, sweet, fruitful, and wholesome of all the world," and "the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason." Queen Elizabeth named this region Virginia,1 in compliment to herself, the virgin queen. 25. The First... | |
 | Sara Agnes Rice Pryor - 1907 - 454 pages
...there was no winter, no cold. A hundred islands clustered along the shores, inhabited by "people the most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the golden age." No wonder a new expedition of one hundred and eight colonists... | |
 | Rudolf Cronau - 1908 - 164 pages
...had ever seen. "Its soil," so Raleigh writes, "is most plentiful, sweet, fruitful and wholesome, and the people most gentle, loving and faithful, void...such as live after the manner of the Golden Age. The many goodly woodes are full of Deere, Conies, Hares and Fowle, even in the middest of summer, in incredible... | |
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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. 
