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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... sailing west which was to result in the discovery of Amer- ica . In 1474 we find him expounding his views to Paolo Toscanelli , the Florentine physician and cosmographer , and receiving the heartiest encouragement . These views he ...
... sailing west which was to result in the discovery of Amer- ica . In 1474 we find him expounding his views to Paolo Toscanelli , the Florentine physician and cosmographer , and receiving the heartiest encouragement . These views he ...
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... sail westward , and this he at length deter- mined to do . There is also some vague and unreliable tradition as to a Portuguese pilot discovering the Indies previous to Columbus , and on his deathbed revealing the secret to the Genoese ...
... sail westward , and this he at length deter- mined to do . There is also some vague and unreliable tradition as to a Portuguese pilot discovering the Indies previous to Columbus , and on his deathbed revealing the secret to the Genoese ...
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... sailing as it were " into a world unknown - the corner - stone of a nation . " Deeply significant was one incident of their first few days ' sail . Emilio Castelar tells us that these barks , laden with bright promises for the future ...
... sailing as it were " into a world unknown - the corner - stone of a nation . " Deeply significant was one incident of their first few days ' sail . Emilio Castelar tells us that these barks , laden with bright promises for the future ...
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... sails and remained under the storm sail , which is the main sail without bonnets , and hove to , waiting for daylight ; and Friday [ found they had ] arrived at a small island of the Lucayos which the Indians called Guanahani . " It ...
... sails and remained under the storm sail , which is the main sail without bonnets , and hove to , waiting for daylight ; and Friday [ found they had ] arrived at a small island of the Lucayos which the Indians called Guanahani . " It ...
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... sailing . Into the details of this voyage , of highest interest as it is , it is impossible to go further . The letter of Columbus , hereinafter printed , gives further and most interesting details . It will be enough to say here that ...
... sailing . Into the details of this voyage , of highest interest as it is , it is impossible to go further . The letter of Columbus , hereinafter printed , gives further and most interesting details . It will be enough to say here that ...
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Popular passages
Page 153 - 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 380 - 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 235 - 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 236 - 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 like a leaping sword: "Sail on! Sail on! Sail on, and on!
Page 61 - 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 334 - 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 362 - States; her glories chanted by three millions of tongues, and the whole region smiling under her blessed influence. Sir, let but this, our celestial goddess, Liberty, stretch forth her fair hand toward the People of the Old World, — tell them to come, and bid them welcome...
Page 238 - 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.
Page 338 - Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years, you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life...
Page 335 - Ay, let them rail, those haughty ones, While safe thou dwellest with thy sons. They do not know how loved thou art, How many a fond and fearless heart Would rise to throw Its life between thee and the foe. They know not, in their hate and pride, What virtues with thy children bide...