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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... water for his boy Diego , and pres- ently got into conversation with Fray Juan Perez de Mar- chena , the prior , who invited him to take up his quarters in the monastery , and introduced him to Garci Fernandez , a physician and an ...
... water for his boy Diego , and pres- ently got into conversation with Fray Juan Perez de Mar- chena , the prior , who invited him to take up his quarters in the monastery , and introduced him to Garci Fernandez , a physician and an ...
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... waters he was already sailing . Into the details of this voyage , of highest interest as it is , it is impossible to go further . The letter of Columbus , hereinafter printed , gives further and most interesting details . It will be ...
... waters he was already sailing . Into the details of this voyage , of highest interest as it is , it is impossible to go further . The letter of Columbus , hereinafter printed , gives further and most interesting details . It will be ...
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... water , and fearing that no land lay west- ward as they had hoped , Columbus had turned his ship's head north , when Alonzo Perez , a mariner of Huelva , saw land about fifteen leagues to the southwest . It was crowned with three ...
... water , and fearing that no land lay west- ward as they had hoped , Columbus had turned his ship's head north , when Alonzo Perez , a mariner of Huelva , saw land about fifteen leagues to the southwest . It was crowned with three ...
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... water poured out through the embouchure of the river now called the Orinoco , that he concluded that the so - called archipelago must be in very deed a great continent . Unfortunately at this time he was suffering intolerably from gout ...
... water poured out through the embouchure of the river now called the Orinoco , that he concluded that the so - called archipelago must be in very deed a great continent . Unfortunately at this time he was suffering intolerably from gout ...
Stran 56
... water, so to die sooner, rather than bear the torture of the fire. But the Admiral being an excellent swimmer, and seeing himself two leagues or a little farther from land, laying hold of an oar, which good fortnne offered him, and ...
... water, so to die sooner, rather than bear the torture of the fire. But the Admiral being an excellent swimmer, and seeing himself two leagues or a little farther from land, laying hold of an oar, which good fortnne offered him, and ...
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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!