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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... Spanish statesman and orator , Emilio Castelar ) he was jocularly and universally termed " the stranger with the threadbare coat . " He at once betook himself to Huelva , where his brother - in- law resided , with the intention of ...
... Spanish statesman and orator , Emilio Castelar ) he was jocularly and universally termed " the stranger with the threadbare coat . " He at once betook himself to Huelva , where his brother - in- law resided , with the intention of ...
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... Spanish history as " The Capitulations of Santa Fé . " His aims were nothing less than the discovery of the marvelous province of Cipango and the conversion to Christianity of the Grand Khan , to whom he received a royal and curious ...
... Spanish history as " The Capitulations of Santa Fé . " His aims were nothing less than the discovery of the marvelous province of Cipango and the conversion to Christianity of the Grand Khan , to whom he received a royal and curious ...
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... Spanish rulers the advisability of shipping the natives to Spain as slaves . He appeals to their cupidity by picturing the revenue to be derived therefrom , and stands convicted in the light of history as the prime author of that blood ...
... Spanish rulers the advisability of shipping the natives to Spain as slaves . He appeals to their cupidity by picturing the revenue to be derived therefrom , and stands convicted in the light of history as the prime author of that blood ...
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... Spanish sway . Alonzo de Ojeda succeeded , by a brilliant coup de main , in capturing the Cacique Caonabo , and the rest submitted . Five ship - loads of Indians were sent off to Seville ( June 24 , 1495 ) to be sold as slaves ; and a ...
... Spanish sway . Alonzo de Ojeda succeeded , by a brilliant coup de main , in capturing the Cacique Caonabo , and the rest submitted . Five ship - loads of Indians were sent off to Seville ( June 24 , 1495 ) to be sold as slaves ; and a ...
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... Spanish ex- chequer was not then well supplied . But principally owing to the interest of the Queen , an agreement was come to similar to that of 1492 , which was now confirmed . By this royal patent , moreover , a tract of land in ...
... Spanish ex- chequer was not then well supplied . But principally owing to the interest of the Queen , an agreement was come to similar to that of 1492 , which was now confirmed . By this royal patent , moreover , a tract of land in ...
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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!