Christopher Columbus and how He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery

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Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1891 - 674 strani
 

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Stran iii - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Stran ii - Reader's Handbook of the American Revolution. i6mo, $1.25. Was Shakespeare Shapleigh ? Edited by JUSTIN WINSOR. i6mo, rubricated parchment paper. 75 cents. Winsor, Justin, continued. *Narrative and Critical History of America. With Bibliographical and Descriptive Essays on its Historical Sources and Authorities. Profusely illustrated with Portraits, Maps, Facsimiles, etc.
Stran 513 - St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah ; and He showed me the spot where to find it.
Stran 462 - Such is my fate, that the twenty years of service through which I have passed with so much toil and danger have profited me nothing, and at this very day I do not possess a roof in Spain that I can call my own ; if I wish to eat or sleep, I have nowhere to go but to the inn or tavern, and most times lack wherewith to pay the bill.
Stran 56 - There is a certain meddlesome spirit, which, in the garb of learned research, goes prying about the traces of history, casting down its monuments, and marring and mutilating its fairest trophies. Care should be taken to vindicate great names from such pernicious erudition.
Stran 181 - That he or his lieutenant should be the sole judge in all causes and disputes arising out of traffic between those countries and Spain, provided the high admiral of Castile had similar jurisdiction in his district.
Stran 437 - ... undertaking already appear, and would shine greatly were they not concealed by the blindness of the government. I am going again to the Indies under the auspices of the Holy Trinity, soon to return ; and since I am mortal, I leave it with my son Diego that you receive every year, forever, one tenth of the entire revenue, such as it may be, for the purpose of reducing the tax upon corn, wine, and other provisions.
Stran 510 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Stran 463 - is the most precious of all commodities; [it] constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in this world, as also the means of securing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of Paradise.
Stran 514 - Its discoverer might have been its father; he proved to be its despoiler. He might have given its young days such a benignity as the world likes to associate with a maker; he left it a legacy of devastation and crime. He might have been an unselfish promoter of geographical science; he proved a rabid seeker for gold and a viceroyalty. He might have won converts to the fold of Christ by the kindness of his spirit; he gained the execrations of the good angels

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