The History of North and South America, from Its Discovery to the Death of General Washington, Volumes 1-2Benjamin Warner, and sold at his stores, Richmond, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina, 1819 - America |
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Page 7
... conducted him to so much glory . His early voyages were to those ports in the Mediterranean which his countrymen , the Genoese , frequented . This being too narrow a sphere for his active mind , he made an excursion to the north- ern ...
... conducted him to so much glory . His early voyages were to those ports in the Mediterranean which his countrymen , the Genoese , frequented . This being too narrow a sphere for his active mind , he made an excursion to the north- ern ...
Page 17
... conduct of the voyage was committed entirely to his wisdom and prudence . But that they might avoid giving any just cause of offence to the king of Portugal , they strictly enjoined him not to approach near to the Portuguese settlements ...
... conduct of the voyage was committed entirely to his wisdom and prudence . But that they might avoid giving any just cause of offence to the king of Portugal , they strictly enjoined him not to approach near to the Portuguese settlements ...
Page 22
... and prostrating them- selves before it , returned thanks to God , for thus conducting their voyage to so happy an issue . They then , in a solemn manner , took possession 22 HISTORY OF AMERICA . Discovers land, one of the Bahama Islands,
... and prostrating them- selves before it , returned thanks to God , for thus conducting their voyage to so happy an issue . They then , in a solemn manner , took possession 22 HISTORY OF AMERICA . Discovers land, one of the Bahama Islands,
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... conducted with harmony and satisfaction . The former enlightened , and influ- enced by ambition , formed vast ideas respecting the future ad . vantages that would likely accrue from the discovery . The lat- ter , simple and unsuspecting ...
... conducted with harmony and satisfaction . The former enlightened , and influ- enced by ambition , formed vast ideas respecting the future ad . vantages that would likely accrue from the discovery . The lat- ter , simple and unsuspecting ...
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... conduct , pretending that he had been driven from his course by stress of weather , and prevented from returning by contrary winds . Columbus , though no stranger to his perfidious intentions , as well as the falsehood he urged in his ...
... conduct , pretending that he had been driven from his course by stress of weather , and prevented from returning by contrary winds . Columbus , though no stranger to his perfidious intentions , as well as the falsehood he urged in his ...
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