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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... Juan Perez de Mar- chena , the prior , who invited him to take up his quarters in the monastery , and introduced him to Garci Fernandez , a physician and an ardent student of geography . To these good men did Columbus propound his ...
... Juan Perez de Mar- chena , the prior , who invited him to take up his quarters in the monastery , and introduced him to Garci Fernandez , a physician and an ardent student of geography . To these good men did Columbus propound his ...
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... Juan Perez succeeded in interesting Martin Alonzo Pinzon and Vicente Yañez Pinzon in the cause , Columbus ' departure had been long delayed . At last , however , men , ships , and stores were ready . The expedition consisted of the ...
... Juan Perez succeeded in interesting Martin Alonzo Pinzon and Vicente Yañez Pinzon in the cause , Columbus ' departure had been long delayed . At last , however , men , ships , and stores were ready . The expedition consisted of the ...
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... Juan . On Novem- ber 22d Columbus came in sight of Española , and , sailing eastward to La Navidad , found the fort burned and the colony dispersed . He decided on building a second fort , and , coasting on forty miles east of Cape ...
... Juan . On Novem- ber 22d Columbus came in sight of Española , and , sailing eastward to La Navidad , found the fort burned and the colony dispersed . He decided on building a second fort , and , coasting on forty miles east of Cape ...
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... Juan . He then stood to the southeast and sighted the Island of Evangelista ; and after many days of difficulties and anxie- ties he touched at and named the Island La Mona . Thence he had intended to sail eastward and complete the ...
... Juan . He then stood to the southeast and sighted the Island of Evangelista ; and after many days of difficulties and anxie- ties he touched at and named the Island La Mona . Thence he had intended to sail eastward and complete the ...
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... Juan Aguada arrived at Isabella , with an open commission from 8 The will of Diego Mendez , one of Columbus ' most trusted followers , states that the Governor of Xaragua in seven months burned and hanged eighty - four chiefs ...
... Juan Aguada arrived at Isabella , with an open commission from 8 The will of Diego Mendez , one of Columbus ' most trusted followers , states that the Governor of Xaragua in seven months burned and hanged eighty - four chiefs ...
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Page 151 - 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 377 - 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 234 - 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 59 - 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 330 - 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 360 - 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 236 - 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 336 - 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 336 - Suppose, Sir, that the angel of this auspicious youth, foreseeing the many virtues which made him one of the most amiable, as he is one of the most fortunate, men of his age...
Page 235 - Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!" Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck — A light! a light! a light! a light! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's burst of dawn. He gained a world; he gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!