 So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people," says Columbus in his journal, " that I swear to your majesties, there is not in the world' a better nation, nor a better land. They love their neighbors as themselves ; and their discourse is ever...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 77publié par - 1874Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 574 pages
...*. " So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people," says Columbus in his journal, " that I swear to your Majesties, there is not in the world...naked, yet their manners are decorous and praiseworthy f ." * Hist. del Almirante, cap. 32. Las Casas, lib. i., c. 9. t Hist. del Almirante. Chap. IX.] TRANSACTIONS... | |
 | 1828 - 448 pages
...themselves. " ' So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people,' says Columbus in his journal, ' that I swear to your majesties, there is not in the world...yet their manners are decorous and praiseworthy.' "—Vol. i. pp. 328—330. The cacique Guacanagari appears to have been a most amiahle and excellent... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 502 pages
...« So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these peop]e,» says Columbus in his journal, « that I swear to your Majesties, there is not in the world...land. They love their neighbours as themselves; and iheir discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile; and though it is true that... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 444 pages
...loving, 30 tractable, so peaceable, are these people," says the great discoverer in his journal, " that T swear to your majesties, there is not in the world a better nation nor a better land." And yet he sent these very people in chains to his native country, to be received as slaves. A cjuarter... | |
 | 1830 - 426 pages
...the same character. " These people," said he, in his journal, " love their neighbours as themselves ; their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile. I swear to your majesties, thcro is not in the world a better nation, or a bettor land." These were... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1835 - 260 pages
...themselves: their discourse is even sweet and gentle, and accompanied by a smile: (and he continues,) I swear to Your Majesties there is not in the world a better nation or a better land." But it was not long before he remitted, says Washington Irving, " with all the gold... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 436 pages
...themselves.* "So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people," says Columbus in his journal, " that I swear to your majesties there is not in the world a better nation, or a better land. They love their neighbours as themselves ; and their discourse is ever sweet and... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1835 - 244 pages
...themselves: their discourse is even sweet and gentle, and accompanied by a smile: (and he continues,) I swear to Your Majesties there is not in the world a better nation or a better land." But it was not long' before he remitted, says Washington Irving, " with all the... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 pages
...and confiding manners. " So loving, so tractable, so peaceable," he says, " are these people, that I swear to your majesties there is not in the world...yet their manners are decorous and praiseworthy." Such are the descriptions fiven of the island of Hayti by its discoverer — the first island oomed... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 454 pages
...themselves.* " So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people," says Columbus in his journal, "that I swear to your Majesties, there is not in the world...better nation, nor a better land. They love their neighbors as themselves ; and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile... | |
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