 Enraged as the sailors were, and impatient to turn their faces again towards their native country, this proposition did not appear to them unreasonable. Nor did Columbus hazard much in confining himself to a term so short. The presages of discovering...  The History of America - Stran 126avtor: William Robertson - 1817 - 383 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Hardie - 1801 - 526 strani
...enterprise, and direct his course to Spain. Impatient as the sailors were to return to their native home, this proposition did not appear to them unreasonable; nor did Columbus hazard much by confining himself to so short a time, the presages of discovering land being now so numerous, that... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 432 strani
...Spain. Enraged as the sailors were, yet they consented to this proposition, which did not to them appear unreasonable. Nor did Columbus hazard much in confining...numerous and promising, that he deemed them infallible ; and on AMERICA. 13 m the llth of October, after public prayers for success, he ordered the sails... | |
 | John Burk, Skelton Jones, Louis Hue Girardin - 1804 - 366 strani
...promise that he would abandon his project, if after three days they did not .see land.* HE did not hazard much in confining himself to a term so short. The presages of land were now so numerous and unequivocal, f that on the eleventh of October, he ordered the ships... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1805 - 414 strani
...Spain. Enraged as the sailors were, yet they consented to this proposition, which did not to them appear unreasonable. Nor did Columbus hazard much in confining...numerous and promising) that he deemed them infallible : and on the llth of October, after public prayer? for success, he ordered the sails to be furled,... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 514 strani
...towards Spain. Enraged as the sailors were, and impatient to turn their faces again towards their native country, this proposition did not appear to them unreasonable....that he deemed them infallible. For some days the soundingline reached the bottom, and the soil which it brought up indicated land to be at no great... | |
 | William Robertson, Alexander Stewart - 1820 - 440 strani
...towards Spain.* ENRAGED as the sailors were, and impatient to turn tneir faces agam towards their native country, this proposition did not appear to them unreasonable....that he deemed them infallible. For some days the sounding-line reached the bottom, and the soil which it brought up indicated land to be at no great... | |
 | 1822 - 184 strani
...time, land were not discovered, he would abandon the enterprise, and direct his course towards Spain. Nor did Columbus hazard much in confining himself to a term so short: the indications of approaching land were now so numerous and promising, that he deemed them infallible.... | |
 | John Platts - 1826 - 632 strani
...Spain. • Enraged as the sailors were, and impatient to turn their faces again towards their native country, this proposition did not appear to them unreasonable....confining himself to a term so short. The presages of discoveringland were now so numerous and promising, that he deemed them infallible. For some days the... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1828 - 320 strani
...generous sentiment. Enraged as the sailors were, and impatient as they were of returning to their native country, this proposition did not appear to them unreasonable:...did Columbus hazard much in confining himself to a time so short; for the pres'ages of discovering land had become so numerous and promising, that he... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1829 - 290 strani
...towards Spain. Enraged as the sailors were, and impatient as they were of returning to their native country, this proposition did not appear to them unreasonable...did Columbus hazard much in confining himself to a time so short ; for the pres'ages oV discovering land had become so numerous and promising, that he... | |
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