The New World: Embracing American History, Volumen1Hurlbut, Kellogg, American Subscription Publishing House, 1862 |
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... thousand years , it was great presumption in an ordinary man to sup- pose that there remained such a vast discovery for him to make . " So great , in fine , were the prejudice , bigotry , and ignorance of a major- ity of the council ...
... thousand years , it was great presumption in an ordinary man to sup- pose that there remained such a vast discovery for him to make . " So great , in fine , were the prejudice , bigotry , and ignorance of a major- ity of the council ...
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... thousand inhabitants , from whom they received great reverence and hospitality , but on whom the oriental learning of the interpreter was quite thrown away . These people smoked a fragrant herb , prepared in rolls , which they called ...
... thousand inhabitants , from whom they received great reverence and hospitality , but on whom the oriental learning of the interpreter was quite thrown away . These people smoked a fragrant herb , prepared in rolls , which they called ...
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... thousand men , with which he marched against the Spanish settlement ; but these unclad and feebly - armed numbers were unable to withstand the unwonted terrors of cavalry and musketry , and were defeated , with much slaughter , by Ojeda ...
... thousand men , with which he marched against the Spanish settlement ; but these unclad and feebly - armed numbers were unable to withstand the unwonted terrors of cavalry and musketry , and were defeated , with much slaughter , by Ojeda ...
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... thousand of the eager adventurers whom he had brought over , and who , in their insane thirst for gold , exposed themselves recklessly to disease and famine . The Indians were held in the most intolera- ble slavery , and vast numbers ...
... thousand of the eager adventurers whom he had brought over , and who , in their insane thirst for gold , exposed themselves recklessly to disease and famine . The Indians were held in the most intolera- ble slavery , and vast numbers ...
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... thousand , had perished . Many caves in the mountains , still thickly covered with human bones , attest the miserable end of these unfortunates , who , fleeing from the sword or lash of the oppressors , died from hunger in those dismal ...
... thousand , had perished . Many caves in the mountains , still thickly covered with human bones , attest the miserable end of these unfortunates , who , fleeing from the sword or lash of the oppressors , died from hunger in those dismal ...
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Página 29 - A deep religious sentiment mingled with his meditations, and gave them at times a tinge of superstition, but it was of a sublime and lofty kind : he looked upon himself as standing in the hand of Heaven, chosen from among men for the accomplishment of its high purpose ; he read, as he supposed, his contemplated discovery foretold in Holy Writ, and shadowed forth darkly in the mystic revelations of the prophets. The ends of the earth were to be brought together, and all nations and tongues and languages...
Página 79 - Little have I profited," he adds, in another, "by twenty years of service, with such toils and perils; since, at present, I do not own a roof in Spain. If I desire to eat or sleep, I have no resort but an inn; and, for the most times, have not wherewithal to pay my bill.
Página 398 - Yonnondio. you must have believed when you left Quebec that the sun had burnt up all the forests which render our country inaccessible to the French, or that the lakes had so far overflown the banks that they had surrounded our castles and that it was impossible for us to get out of them.
Página 419 - Real misery was wholly unknown, and benevolence anticipated the demands of poverty.* Every misfortune was relieved as it were before it could be felt, without ostentation on the one hand, and without meanness on the other. It was, in short, a society of brethren ; every individual of which was equally ready to give, and to receive, what he thought the common right of mankind.
Página 398 - I thank you in their name, for bringing back into their country the calumet which your predecessor received from their hands. It was happy for you that you left under...
Página 243 - Be in no pain," said he carelessly, " about my life ; it is perfectly safe, as long as every man in Peru knows that I can in a moment cut off any head which dares to harbour a thought against it.
Página 106 - It was delivered to the warrior who had taken him in battle, and by him, after being dressed, was served up in an entertainment to his friends. This was not the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but a banquet teeming with delicious beverages and delicate viands, prepared with art, and attended by both sexes, who, as we shall see hereafter, conducted themselves with all the decorum of civilized life.
Página 374 - And our Master and his Mate determined to trie some of the chiefe men of the Countrey, whether they had any treacherie in them. So they tooke them downe into the...
Página 225 - Know, whoever you may be," said the writing, " that may chance to set foot in this country, that it contains more gold and silver than there is iron in Biscay.
Página 375 - Whereupon all the rest fled away, some in their canoes, and so leapt out of them into the water. We manned our boat, and got our things againe. Then one of them that swamme got hold of our boat, thinking to overthrow it. But our cooke tooke a sword, and cut off one of his hands, and he was drowned.