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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. "
Traditions of the North American Indians: Being a Second and Revised Edition ... - Page 112
by James Athearn Jones - 1830
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Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in North America ..., Volume 1

Hugh Murray - America - 1829 - 556 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...
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Advice in the Pursuits of Literature, Containing Historical, Biographical ...

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 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. This...
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Advice in the Pursuits of Literature: Containing Historical, Biographical ...

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,...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. •....
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A History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American ..., Volume 1

George Bancroft - United States - 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...
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A History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American ..., Volume 1

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...
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Lives of the Presidents of the United States: With Biographical Notices of ...

Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 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...
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On the Classical Tongues and the Advantages of Their Study: An Inaugural ...

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 empire....
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British Colonization and Coloured Tribes

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, and...
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Tales and Ballads

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...
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History of the Colonization of the United States, Volume 1

George Bancroft - United States - 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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