 ... for it has few superiors in the whole Library of Travel. Enthusiastic Biographers, beginning with Ramusio, have placed Polo on the same platform with Columbus. But where has our Venetian Traveller left behind him any trace of the genius and lofty...  Life of Christopher Columbusavtor: Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1892 - 375 straniPrikaz kratkega opisa - O knjigi
 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 624 strani
...behind him any trace of the genius and lofty enthusiasm, the ardent and justified previsions which mark the great Admiral as one of the lights of the human race ? f It is a juster praise that the spur which his Book eventually gave to geographical studies, and... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 862 strani
...behind him any trace of the genius and lofty enthusiasm, the ardent and justified previsions which mark the great Admiral as one of the lights of the human race ? \ It is a juster praise that the spur which * M. D'Avezac lias refuted the common jw^position that... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 672 strani
...behind him any trace of the genius and lofty enthusiasm, the ardent and justified previsions which mark the great Admiral as one of the lights of the human race ? \ It is a juster praise that the spur which * M. D'Avezac has refuted the common supposition that... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 730 strani
...behind him any trace of the genius and lofty enthusiasm, the ardent and justified previsions which mark the great Admiral as one of the lights of the human race ? t It is a juster praise that the spur which * M. D'Avezac has refuted the common supposition that... | |
 | 1893 - 792 strani
...behind him any trace of the genius and lofty enthusiasm, the ardent and justified previsions which mark the great Admiral as one of the lights of the human race ?" — Yule, The Book of Ser Marco Polo, Introduction, p. 102, London, 1875. •* We have seen a pitiable... | |
 | John Marcus Dickey - 1892 - 472 strani
...whose loss from among us we still continue to feel — the late Sir Henry Yule. He said of Columbus: "His genius and lofty enthusiasm, his ardent and justified...great Admiral as one of the lights of the human race." A DISCOVERY GREATER THAN THE LABORS OF HERCULES. PIF.TRO MARTIRE DF. ANGHIERA (usually called Peter... | |
 | John Marcus Dickey - 1892 - 506 strani
...whose loss from among us we still continue to feel — the late Sir Henry Yule. He said of Columbus: "His genius and lofty enthusiasm, his ardent and justified...great Admiral as one of the lights of the human race." A DISCOVERY GREATER THAN THE LABORS OF HERCULES. PIETRO MARTIRE DE ANGHIERA (usually called Peter Martyr),... | |
 | John Marcus Dickey - 1892 - 484 strani
...whose loss from among us we still continue to feel — the late Sir Henry Yule. He said of Columbus: "His genius and lofty enthusiasm, his ardent and justified...great Admiral as one of the lights of the human race." A DISCOVERY GREATER THAN THE LABORS OF HERCULES. PIETRO MARTIRE DE ANGHIERA (usually called Peter Martyr),... | |
 | 1895 - 708 strani
...reasoning powers of a high order; and an ingenious, almost subtle, way of seizing upon and utilizing every point which had a relation to the subject he...enthusiasm, his ardent and justified previsions, mark the Admiral as one of the lights of the human race." ' "It was, however, as a navigator that the genius... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1903 - 828 strani
...behind him any trace of the genius and lofty enthusiasm, the ardent and justified previsions which mark the great Admiral as one of the lights of the human race?* It is a juster praise that the spur which his Book eventually gave to geographical studies, and the... | |
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