Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia: Being a Concordance of Choice Tributes to the Great Genoese, His Grand Discovery, and His Greatness of Mind and Purpose. The Testimony of Ancient Authors, the Tributes of Modern Men ...Rand, McNally, 1892 - 397 pages |
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... Genius , pluck , endurance , and faith can be resisted by neither kings nor cabinets . Columbus stands deservedly at the head of that most useful band of men - the heroic cranks in history . The persistent enthusiast whom one generation ...
... Genius , pluck , endurance , and faith can be resisted by neither kings nor cabinets . Columbus stands deservedly at the head of that most useful band of men - the heroic cranks in history . The persistent enthusiast whom one generation ...
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... GENIUS TRAVELS EAST TO WEST . The Abbé FERNANDO GALIANI , an Italian political economist . Born at Chieti , on the Abruzzi , 1728 ; died at Naples , 1787 . For five thousand years genius has turned opposite to the diurnal motion , and ...
... GENIUS TRAVELS EAST TO WEST . The Abbé FERNANDO GALIANI , an Italian political economist . Born at Chieti , on the Abruzzi , 1728 ; died at Naples , 1787 . For five thousand years genius has turned opposite to the diurnal motion , and ...
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... genius of God has seized him . The Holy Ghost has touched him as the spirit of liberty . Humanity cries through him for more room . Emperors will not hear . But he gains one ear , at last , and with the mariner's needle set out for the ...
... genius of God has seized him . The Holy Ghost has touched him as the spirit of liberty . Humanity cries through him for more room . Emperors will not hear . But he gains one ear , at last , and with the mariner's needle set out for the ...
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... genius of a single man , they adopt a theory which is discouraging and untrue . No man is , or ever was , ahead of his times . No human efforts are , or ever were , disconnected from a long chain of previous exertions ; and this applies ...
... genius of a single man , they adopt a theory which is discouraging and untrue . No man is , or ever was , ahead of his times . No human efforts are , or ever were , disconnected from a long chain of previous exertions ; and this applies ...
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... genius , and the courage which bore up against a long series of misfortunes , which have exalted the Admiral high above all his contemporaries . THE PENETRATION AND EXTREME ACCURACY OF COLUMBUS . Columbus preserved , amid so many ...
... genius , and the courage which bore up against a long series of misfortunes , which have exalted the Admiral high above all his contemporaries . THE PENETRATION AND EXTREME ACCURACY OF COLUMBUS . Columbus preserved , amid so many ...
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Admiral Amerigo Vespucci Atlantic Bahamas Barcelona Bartolomeo Columbus Born Boston bronze brother caravels Castille Cat Island Catholic celebrated century Chicago Christian Christopher Columbus church civilization coast Colon Colum Columbia Columbus Monument continent court crew Cuba died Diego discovered discovery of America divine Domingo earth east empire England erected Española Europe event eyes faith feet Friday genius Genoa Genoese glorious glory gold Guanahani Gulf of Paria hand heart heaven honor Huelva Indian Indies inscription Isabella Italian Juan King land letter liberty light Lisbon Madrid marble mariner Mass morocco nations navigator Niña North o'er ocean October Old World orator Palos pedestal Pinzon poet portrait Portugal Queen Rábida sail sailor Salamanca San Salvador Santa Maria Santo Domingo Santoña Seville ships shore soul Spain Spanish stands statue of Columbus thee thou tion unknown vessel voyage Washington Watling's Island West westward York
Popular passages
Page 145 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Page 227 - Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules ; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said : "Now must we pray, For lo ! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say...
Page 369 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.
Page 228 - Sail on! sail on! and on!" They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: "This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. He curls his lip, he lies in wait, With lifted teeth, as if to bite! Brave Admiral, say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt as a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
Page 145 - Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the sight Of sky and stars to prisoned men : Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome as the cry That told the Indian isles were nigh To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land wind, from woods of palm, And orange groves, and fields of balm, Blew o'er the Haytian seas.
Page 197 - And disappointment's dry and bitter root, Envy's harsh berries, and the choking pool Of the world's scorn, are the right mother-milk To the tough hearts that pioneer their kind, And break a pathway to those unknown realms That in the earth's broad shadow lie enthralled ; Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts...
Page 53 - I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
Page 326 - I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main,— and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
Page 342 - I shall call that my country, where I may most glorify God, and enjoy the presence of my dearest friends.
Page 230 - The great mystery of the ocean was revealed ; his theory, which had been the scoff of sages, was triumphantly established ; he had secured to himself a glory durable as the world itself. It is difficult to conceive the feelings of such a man, at such a moment ; or the conjectures which must have thronged upon his mind, as to the land before him, covered with darkness.