 | Roger L. Nichols, George R. Adams - 1971 - 310 pages
...people among whom ill-fated Roanoke was established the following year: ". . . most gentle, loving, faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such...live after the manner of the golden age. . . ." The policy of the various Indian peoples, in these first meetings between two strange worlds, was obviously... | |
 | Benjamin Woods Labaree - 1976 - 276 pages
...visions of the Garden of Eden, the inhabitants seemed blessed with the innocence of Paradise, "the most gentle, loving, and faithful void, of all guile...such as live after the manner of the golden age." One of the most influential writers was Captain John Smith, whose account of New England published... | |
 | George M. Fredrickson - 1981 - 386 pages
...Indian. He found some of the North American Indians that he encountered on his voyage of 1587 to be "most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile...such as live after the manner of the golden age." (Hakluyt, Voyages, 274.) See also Gary B. Nash, "The Image of the Indian in the Southern Colonial Mind,"... | |
 | Karen Ordahl Kupperman - 1984 - 194 pages
...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 lived after the manner of the golden age. In this mood he compared the land to the biblical paradise.... | |
 | David B. Quinn - 1985 - 496 pages
...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 lived after the manner of the Golden Age. The earth bringeth forth all things in abundance, as in the... | |
 | David E. Stannard - 1992 - 420 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!, void of all guile and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the Golden Age. ... a more kind and loving people, there can not be found... | |
 | Peter René Lavoy, Scott Douglas Sagan, James J. Wirtz - 2000 - 592 pages
...soil was "the most plentiful!, sweete, fruitfull, and wholsome of all (he world." And its people were "most gentle, loving, and faithful!, void of all guile, and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the golden age"; quoted in Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom:... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 pages
...find the soil "the most plentiful, sweet, fruitful, and wholesome of all the world." The people are "most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile, and treason, and such as lived after the manner of the golden age." The conclusion has long been apparent: the earth in Virginia... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - 1996 - 764 pages
...registered by Magellan, Verrazano, and Martin Frobisher. The English explorer Walter Raleigh reported that "We found the people most gentle, loving and faithful,...such as live after the manner of the golden age." See Wilcomb Washburn, "The First European Contracts with the American Indians," Instituto de Investigacao... | |
 | John Martin Evans - 1996 - 220 pages
...threat to his life and property?"16 In phrases that echoed Arthur Barlowe's influential account of a people "most gentle, loving and faithful, void of...and such as live after the manner of the golden age" Robert Johnson thus assured prospective emigrants that the inhabitants of Virginia were "generally... | |
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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. 
