A History of the Character and Achievements of the So-called Christopher Columbus |
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... reached any thing at all equal to the accuracy of the Great Pyramid . . . In their measurement of the pyramid , the moderns have had an advantage over the primeval builders of it ; and how have they come off in the trial ? Why , it has ...
... reached any thing at all equal to the accuracy of the Great Pyramid . . . In their measurement of the pyramid , the moderns have had an advantage over the primeval builders of it ; and how have they come off in the trial ? Why , it has ...
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... task ; at last , aided by the sound of a falling stone , they reached a narrow passage , the primitive subterranean one through which the Romans and others had penetrated downward into the building ; but the stone which.
... task ; at last , aided by the sound of a falling stone , they reached a narrow passage , the primitive subterranean one through which the Romans and others had penetrated downward into the building ; but the stone which.
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... reached the goal , emerged into the final chamber , which was thirty - four feet long , seventeen broad , and nineteen high , built of polished granite so exqui- sitely finished and cemented that the joints could hardly be per- ceived ...
... reached the goal , emerged into the final chamber , which was thirty - four feet long , seventeen broad , and nineteen high , built of polished granite so exqui- sitely finished and cemented that the joints could hardly be per- ceived ...
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... reached Mexico were not willing to assume a secondary posi- tion to the heroes of the Moorish wars , they therefore depicted the primitive Indian of the forest in colors of Oriental splendor , and magnified their own exploits to the ...
... reached Mexico were not willing to assume a secondary posi- tion to the heroes of the Moorish wars , they therefore depicted the primitive Indian of the forest in colors of Oriental splendor , and magnified their own exploits to the ...
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... reached any thing like the civilization attributed to the Aztecs , some remembrance of its past glories would still be preserved among its descendants . The fine carving of the ruins in Yucatan and elsewhere in Central America appears ...
... reached any thing like the civilization attributed to the Aztecs , some remembrance of its past glories would still be preserved among its descendants . The fine carving of the ruins in Yucatan and elsewhere in Central America appears ...
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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.