 | Washington Irving - America - 1841 - 440 pages
...so strange and formidable, suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence. The wondering savages were won by this benignity ; they now supposed that...firmament which bounded their horizon, or that they hacl descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Stephen T. Allen - Children's literature - 1842 - 418 pages
...and formidable, and he submitted to their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence. " The wondering savages were won by this benignity. They now supposed that...these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies. " The natives of the island were no less objects of curiosity to the Spaniards, differing, as they... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...so strange and formidable, suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence. The wondering savages were won by this benignity ; they now supposed that...discoverer, than his extraordinary sensibility to the beaut}7 of the scenery, and the charms of the climate, of this new world: and on his arrival at Cuba,... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1844 - 494 pages
...whiteness. Columbus treated them with kindness ; they supposed that the ships had sailed out of the firmament which bounded their horizon, or that they had descended from above, and that these strange beings were inhabitants of the skies. The island which the Spaniards had discovered... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - History, Ancient - 1846 - 414 pages
...so strange and formidable, suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence. The wondering savages were won by this benignity ; they now supposed that...mar-vellous beings were inhabitants of the skies. The land which Columbus had discovered was part of the island of San Salvador, one of the Bahamas;... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - History, Ancient - 1846 - 414 pages
...so strange and formidable, suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence. The wondering savages were won by this benignity ; they now supposed that...these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies. , The land which Columbus had discovered was part of the island of San Salvador, one of the Bahamas;... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...BO strange and formidable, suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence. The wondering savages were won by this benignity ; they now supposed that...that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the ikies." Nothing is more remarkable in the journal of the great discoverer, than his extraordinary sensibility... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1848 - 454 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvelous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Massachusetts - 1849 - 396 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 450 pages
...and confiding simplicity, and suffered their scrutiny with perfect acquiescence, winning them by his benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed...crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvelous beings were inhabitants of... | |
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... benignity. They now supposed that the ships had sailed out of the crystal firmament which bounded their horizon, or had descended from above on their ample wings, and that these marvellous beings were inhabitants of the skies. 
