 ... the seeds of all mischief, have no place with them. They are content with so little, that in so large a country they have rather superfluity than scarceness; so that they seem to live in the golden world, without toil, living in open gardens; not...  The Port Folio - Página 3911827Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Robert A. Williams Jr. - 1992 - 365 páginas
...experiences also affirmed Vespucci's observations on the simplicity of the natives' laws, manners, and wants: Mine and Thine, the seeds of all mischief, have no place with them. They are content with so little, that in so large a country they have rather superfluity than scarceness. So that they seem... | |
 | Washington Irving - 2013 - 497 páginas
...provisions." l One of the most pleasing descriptions of the inhabitants of this island is given by old Peter Martyr, who gathered it, as he says, from...have no place with them. They are content with so little, that in so -large a country they have rather superfluity than scarceness ; so that they seem... | |
 | Alma M. Reed, Michael K. Schuessler - 2007 - 364 páginas
...might have been planned by St. Francis of Assisi himself. "It is certain," wrote the erudite churchman, "that the land among these people is as common as the sun and the water; and that 'mine' and 'thine,' the seeds of all mischief, have no place among them. They are... | |
 | Washington Irving - 2008 - 724 páginas
...of provisions.'* One of the most pleasing descriptions of the inhabitants of this island is given by old Peter Martyr, who gathered it, as he says, from...have no place with them. They are content with so little, that in so large a country they have rather superfluity than scarceness; so that they seemed... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1866 - 1128 páginas
...of provision." t One of the most pleasing descriptions of tho inhabitants of this island is given by old Peter Martyr, who gathered it, as he says, from...himself. "It is certain," says he, "that the land * Charlcvoix. Hist. St. Doming., lib. i. among these people is as common as the sun and water ; and... | |
 | 1891 - 328 páginas
...island lived as simple and free almost as the gayly colored birds in their forests. An old writer says: "That the land among these people is as common as the sun and water. They seem to live in a golden world, without toil, in open gardens; not entrenched with dikes, divided... | |
 | James Serpell - 1996 - 320 páginas
...a 'Golden World'. Pietro's 1511 account of the second voyage of Columbus expounds the latter view. 'Mine and thine, the seeds of all mischief, have no place with them' he said: they seem to live in the Golden World, without toil, living in open gardens, not entrenched... | |
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