Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia: Being a Concordance of Choice Tributes to the Great Genoese, His Grand Discovery, and His Greatness of Mind and Purpose. The Testimony of Ancient Authors, the Tributes of Modern Men ...Rand, McNally, 1892 - 397 strani |
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Stran 13
... east , the nearer it came round toward Spain . " And he had but to turn from the marvelous propositions of Mande- ville and Aliaco to become the recipient of confidences more marvelous still . The air was full of rumors , and the weird ...
... east , the nearer it came round toward Spain . " And he had but to turn from the marvelous propositions of Mande- ville and Aliaco to become the recipient of confidences more marvelous still . The air was full of rumors , and the weird ...
Stran 23
... east ; and four days afterward the Pinta joined her sister ship off Monte Christo . A storm , however , separated the ves- sels , during which ( according to Las Casas ) Columbus , fear- ing the vessel would founder , cast his duplicate ...
... east ; and four days afterward the Pinta joined her sister ship off Monte Christo . A storm , however , separated the ves- sels , during which ( according to Las Casas ) Columbus , fear- ing the vessel would founder , cast his duplicate ...
Stran 25
... east of Cape Haytien , he pitched on a spot , where he founded the city and settle- ment of Isabella . It is remarkable that the first notice of india rubber on record is given by Herrera , who , in the second voyage of Columbus ...
... east of Cape Haytien , he pitched on a spot , where he founded the city and settle- ment of Isabella . It is remarkable that the first notice of india rubber on record is given by Herrera , who , in the second voyage of Columbus ...
Stran 33
... east of the coast of Honduras . Here he got news from an old Indian of a rich and vast country lying to the eastward , which he at once concluded must be the long- sought - for empire of the Grand Khan . Steering along the coast of ...
... east of the coast of Honduras . Here he got news from an old Indian of a rich and vast country lying to the eastward , which he at once concluded must be the long- sought - for empire of the Grand Khan . Steering along the coast of ...
Stran 43
... east- ward , at a distance of eighteen leagues from the former , to which I gave the name of " La Española . " Thither I went , and followed its northern coast to the eastward ( just as I had done with the coast of Juana ) 178 full ...
... east- ward , at a distance of eighteen leagues from the former , to which I gave the name of " La Española . " Thither I went , and followed its northern coast to the eastward ( just as I had done with the coast of Juana ) 178 full ...
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Stran 153 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Stran 380 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.
Stran 235 - Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules ; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said : "Now must we pray, For lo ! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say...
Stran 236 - They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: " This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. He curls his lip, he lies in wait. With lifted teeth, as if to bite! Brave admiral, say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone? " The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! Sail on! Sail on, and on!
Stran 61 - I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
Stran 334 - I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main,— and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
Stran 362 - States; her glories chanted by three millions of tongues, and the whole region smiling under her blessed influence. Sir, let but this, our celestial goddess, Liberty, stretch forth her fair hand toward the People of the Old World, — tell them to come, and bid them welcome...
Stran 238 - The great mystery of the ocean was revealed ; his theory, which had been the scoff of sages, was triumphantly established ; he had secured to himself a glory durable as the world itself. It is difficult to conceive the feelings of such a man, at such a moment ; or the conjectures which must have thronged upon his mind, as to the land before him, covered with darkness.
Stran 338 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...
Stran 335 - Ay, let them rail, those haughty ones, While safe thou dwellest with thy sons. They do not know how loved thou art, How many a fond and fearless heart Would rise to throw Its life between thee and the foe. They know not, in their hate and pride, What virtues with thy children bide...