 | William Cullen Bryant - 1896 - 648 strani
...far-distant and benighted INDIA — THE EL DORADO OF COLUMBUS. [CHAP. V. lands.1 "God made me," he said, " the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which He spoke in the Apocalypse by St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah ; and He showed me the spot where to find... | |
 | Jonathan Perkins Weethee - 1897 - 664 strani
...seriously question, however, the truth of one of his Scripture applications: "God made me (Columbus — W.) the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which He spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John, after having spoken it by the mouth of Isaiah, and He showed me where to find it." —... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - 1898 - 646 strani
...himself as the destined " Christ-bearer" to far-distant and benighted lands.1 " God made me," he said, " the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which He spoke in the Apocalypse by St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah ; and He showed me the spot where to find... | |
 | Edward Gaylord Bourne - 1904 - 394 strani
...heaven and the 1 Las Casas, Htstoria, II., 264. new earth, of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah, and He showed me where to find it." 1 His hold on the shreds of scientific knowledge and scientific spirit, that had... | |
 | Mircea Eliade - 1984 - 193 strani
...role in this grandiose drama, at once historical and cosmic. In addressing Prince John he exclaimed: "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the...of Isaiah; and He showed me the spot where to find it."2 It was in this messianic and apocalyptic atmosphere that the transoceanic expeditions and the... | |
 | Jean Michel Massing, National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Luís de Albuquerque, Jonathan Brown, J. J. Martín González, Richard Kagan, Ezio Bassani, J. Michael Rogers, Julian Raby, David Woodward, Francis Maddison, Martin Kemp, Giulio Carlo Argan, Martin Collcutt, Sherman E. Lee, Gari Ledyard, F. W. Mote, Stuart Cary Welch, Michael D. Coe, Miguel León-Portilla, Irving Rouse, José Juan Arrom, Craig Morris, James E. Brown, Warwick Bray, J. H. Elliott - 1991 - 684 strani
...his letters "Christopher Columbus, Christ Bearer." In 1498 he even referred to himself as a messiah: "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John after having spoken of it through the mouth of Isaiah; and he showed me the spot where... | |
 | James R. McGovern - 1992 - 142 strani
...his letters "Christopher Columbus, Christ Bearer." In 1498 he even referred to himself as a messiah: "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John after having spoken of it through the mouth of Isaiah; and he showed me the spot where... | |
 | Avihu Zakai - 2002 - 280 strani
...history, or according to the great prophetic, revelatory transfer of the Gospel from East to West. "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John," declared Columbus in 1500, "and he showed me the spot where to find it." 73 Disappointed... | |
 | William C. Spengemann - 1994 - 276 strani
...Isabella from Hispaniola in 1 500 rested the authority for his actions squarely on divine revelation: "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the...new earth, of which He spoke in the Apocalypse by St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah; and He showed me the spot where to find... | |
 | David F. Noble - 1995 - 186 strani
...viewed his own endeavours, which he called "the enterprise of Jerusalem," as the fulfilment of prophecy. "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth," Columbus wrote, "of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John (Book of Revelation) after... | |
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God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth, of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John, after having spoken of it by the mouth of Isaiah, and he showed me the spot where to find it. 
