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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... glory of fulfilling the prophecy . Accounts of the navigation from the eastern coast of Africa to Arabia had reached the western kingdoms of Europe , and adventurous Venetians , returning from travels beyond the Ganges , had filled the ...
... glory of fulfilling the prophecy . Accounts of the navigation from the eastern coast of Africa to Arabia had reached the western kingdoms of Europe , and adventurous Venetians , returning from travels beyond the Ganges , had filled the ...
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... glory of having realized that belief . * * * * * The writers of to - day are disposed to consider Magellan's voyage a greater feat than that of Columbus . I can not agree with them . Magellan was doubtless a remarkable man , and a very ...
... glory of having realized that belief . * * * * * The writers of to - day are disposed to consider Magellan's voyage a greater feat than that of Columbus . I can not agree with them . Magellan was doubtless a remarkable man , and a very ...
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... glory of fulfilling the prophecy . COLUMBUS THE MARINER . HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT , an American historian . Born at Granville , Ohio , 1832 . As a mariner and discoverer Columbus had no superior ; as a colonist and governor he proved ...
... glory of fulfilling the prophecy . COLUMBUS THE MARINER . HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT , an American historian . Born at Granville , Ohio , 1832 . As a mariner and discoverer Columbus had no superior ; as a colonist and governor he proved ...
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... glory . Still this man does not murmur . He accuses , he curses nobody ; and does not regret that he was born . The people of ancient times would never have conceived this type of a hero . Christianity alone , whose creation he was ...
... glory . Still this man does not murmur . He accuses , he curses nobody ; and does not regret that he was born . The people of ancient times would never have conceived this type of a hero . Christianity alone , whose creation he was ...
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... in 1867 , and the undertaking of his lifetime was successfully accomplished . And Mr. Field was hon- estly entitled to all the glory and to all the financial profit that he reaped . His project was one that only COLUMBUS . 91.
... in 1867 , and the undertaking of his lifetime was successfully accomplished . And Mr. Field was hon- estly entitled to all the glory and to all the financial profit that he reaped . His project was one that only COLUMBUS . 91.
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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!