The Golden Americas: A Story of Great Discoveries and Daring DeedsWard, Lock, and Tyler, 1869 - 376 strani |
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Druge izdaje - Prikaži vse
The Golden Americas: A Story of Great Discoveries and Daring Deeds John Tillotson Celotni ogled - 1869 |
The Golden Americas: A Story of Great Discoveries and Daring Deeds John Tillotson Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1972 |
Pogosti izrazi in povedi
Almagro Amazon America amongst appearance arrived Aztecs banks beautiful Brazil Brazilians Buenos Ayres caciques called cardinal Casas Castile Chili church civilisation coast coffee colour Columbus command Cordilleras Cortes covered Cruz cultivated Cuzco Diego de Almagro discovered discovery earth east feet flowers forest gold golden Gonzalo Pizarro governor ground head height horses hundred Inca Indians inhabitants island king labour land maize Mexican Mexico miles mines Montezuma mountains natives negroes night Orizaba palm Pará Paraguay pass Pedrarias Peru Peruvians Pizarro plains plants Plata Portuguese possession province Puebla Quito race region rich river sailed says sent serpent ship shore side Sierra silver soldiers South South America Spain Spaniards Spanish thousand Ticuna Tierra Fria town trees tribes valleys Vasco Nunez vegetation Vera Cruz vessels voyage wealth wild wood Ximenes
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 68 - downward bent, Admiring more the riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy.” Of all the princes who had swayed the Mexican sceptre Montezuma was the most haughty, the most violent, the most spirited. He was impatient of control; his subjects looked up to him with awe, and his enemies with terror. The former he governed with unexampled
Stran xiii - King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one target; and he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pounds of gold went to one shield.” And his throne was of ivory overlaid with gold; “and all King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the
Stran 86 - hand that slew till it could slay no more, Was glued to the sword-hilt with Indian gore. Their prince, as justly seated on his throne As vain imperial Philip on his own, Tricked out of all his royalty by art, That stripped him bare, and broke his honest heart, Died by the
Stran 87 - Alike the wrath and mercy of the skies, Thy pomp is in the grave, thy glory laid Low in the pits thine avarice has made. We come with joy from our eternal rest To see the oppressor in his
Stran 128 - How quickly Nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish, over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thought, their brain with care, Their bones with industry; For this they have
Stran xiii - the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold, none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon ;“ for the king “made silver to be in Jerusalem as
Stran 8 - to assert that there were inhabited lands on the opposite sides of the globe would be to maintain that there were nations not descended from Adam, it being impossible for them to have crossed the intervening ocean. But this would be to disbelieve the Bible, which expressly declares that all men
Stran 106 - was born; a greater name The list of glory boasts not. Toil and pain, Famine and hostile elements, and hosts Embattled, failed to check him in his course; Not to be wearied, not to be deterred, Not to be overcome. A mighty realm He overran, and, with relentless aim,
Stran 96 - A curse on him who found the ore! A curse on him who digged the store! A curse on him who did refine it! A curse on him who first did coin it !“ Atahualpa offered an enormous ransom. He promised to fill the room in which he was confined with golden vessels
Stran 128 - from every flower The virtuous sweets, Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey, We bring it to the hive, and like the bees, Are murdered for our pains.