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 12
... voyages and of the mystery of the Western seas . About this time , too , he seems to have arrived at the conclusion that much of the world remained undiscovered , and step by step to have conceived that design of reaching Asia 12 ...
... voyages and of the mystery of the Western seas . About this time , too , he seems to have arrived at the conclusion that much of the world remained undiscovered , and step by step to have conceived that design of reaching Asia 12 ...
Stran 19
... voyage. Three days after the ships had set sail the Pinta lost her rudder. The Admiral was in some alarm, but comforted himself with the reflection that Martin Pinzon was energetic and ready- witted; they had, however, to put in (August ...
... voyage. Three days after the ships had set sail the Pinta lost her rudder. The Admiral was in some alarm, but comforted himself with the reflection that Martin Pinzon was energetic and ready- witted; they had, however, to put in (August ...
Stran 19
... voyage . Three days after the ships had set sail the Pinta lost her rudder . The Admiral was in some alarm , but comforted himself with the reflection that Martin Pinzon was energetic and ready- witted ; they had , however , to put in ...
... voyage . Three days after the ships had set sail the Pinta lost her rudder . The Admiral was in some alarm , but comforted himself with the reflection that Martin Pinzon was energetic and ready- witted ; they had , however , to put in ...
Stran 20
... . Time was measured on voyages by the hour - glass . Compare Shakespere : Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass . and were glad . " At 8 o'clock on that 20 COLUMBUS AND COLUMBIA .
... . Time was measured on voyages by the hour - glass . Compare Shakespere : Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass . and were glad . " At 8 o'clock on that 20 COLUMBUS AND COLUMBIA .
Stran 21
... voyage . After sunset they resumed their former course west , and sailed twelve miles an hour . At 2 o'clock in the morning the land appeared ( was sighted ) , two leagues off . They lowered all the sails and remained under the storm ...
... voyage . After sunset they resumed their former course west , and sailed twelve miles an hour . At 2 o'clock in the morning the land appeared ( was sighted ) , two leagues off . They lowered all the sails and remained under the storm ...
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Stran 151 - 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 377 - 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 234 - 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 as a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
Stran 59 - 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 330 - 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 360 - 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 236 - 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 336 - 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 336 - Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues which made him one of the most amiable, as he is one of the most fortunate, men of his age...
Stran 235 - Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!" Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck — A light! a light! a light! a light! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!