A History of the Character and Achievements of the So-called Christopher Columbus |
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... less plan- ning and erecting them ; these fallen stones and prostrate col- umns , in their colossal size and beauty , put to shame the fairest of our modern architectural monuments . We allow that here the people of the past were ...
... less plan- ning and erecting them ; these fallen stones and prostrate col- umns , in their colossal size and beauty , put to shame the fairest of our modern architectural monuments . We allow that here the people of the past were ...
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... less , this peculiar style of architecture is common to Egypt and Central America . The pyramid at Copan is almost equal in size at the base to the Great Pyramid , though less perfect in propor- tion and workmanship ; that on which ...
... less , this peculiar style of architecture is common to Egypt and Central America . The pyramid at Copan is almost equal in size at the base to the Great Pyramid , though less perfect in propor- tion and workmanship ; that on which ...
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... less often contested than their knowledge of geography , in which they are represented as decidedly deficient ; nevertheless , with the aid of those fragments of their writings which have come down to us , we are able in great measure ...
... less often contested than their knowledge of geography , in which they are represented as decidedly deficient ; nevertheless , with the aid of those fragments of their writings which have come down to us , we are able in great measure ...
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... less than seven hundred different kinds of stones , minerals , and metals , the greater part of which were un- known even by name to the non - artistic majority of men . We cite the following passage from this work as a condensed ex ...
... less than seven hundred different kinds of stones , minerals , and metals , the greater part of which were un- known even by name to the non - artistic majority of men . We cite the following passage from this work as a condensed ex ...
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... less than five hundred men of letters who had concealed themselves in the mountains were hunted out , and condemned , together with their libraries and papers , to the flames . The mischief was to a certain degree retrieved by this ...
... less than five hundred men of letters who had concealed themselves in the mountains were hunted out , and condemned , together with their libraries and papers , to the flames . The mischief was to a certain degree retrieved by this ...
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Page 28 - Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 60 - Oh that my words were now written ! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Page 179 - Pent in this fortress of the North, Think'st thou we will not sally forth, To spoil the spoiler as we may, And from the robber rend the prey ? Ay, by my soul!
Page 61 - Accordingly, when they were some hundred miles asunder, each of them shut himself up in his closet at the time appointed, and immediately cast his eye upon his dial-plate.
Page 135 - Vast honour is paid him ; he dresses in silk, and these English run after him like mad people, so that he can enlist as many of them as he pleases and a number of our own rogues besides.
Page iv - But Peter said unto him ; Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Page 61 - Upon their separating from one another into distant countries, they agreed to withdraw themselves punctually into their closets at a certain hour of the day, and to converse with one another by means of this their invention.
Page 221 - To receive him with suitable pomp and distinction, the sovereigns had ordered their throne to be placed in public, under a rich canopy of brocade of gold, in a vast and splendid saloon. Here the king and queen awaited his arrival, seated in state, with the prince Juan beside them, and attended by the dignitaries of their court, and the principal nobility of Castile...
Page 186 - India, to see the said princes, and the people and lands, and discover the nature and disposition of them all, and the means to be taken for the conversion of them to our holy faith ; and ordered that I should not go by land to the east, by which it is the custom to go, but by a voyage to the west, by which course, unto the present time, we do not know for certain that any one hath passed.
Page 220 - The fame of his discovery had resounded throughout the nation, and as his route lay through several of the finest and most populous provinces of Spain, his journey appeared like the progress of a sovereign. Wherever he passed, the surrounding country poured, forth its inhabitants, who lined the road and thronged the villages.