The Discovery of America by Christopher ColumbusR. Baur & son, printers, 1892 - 132 páginas |
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Página 31 - VII. who then reigned, insomuch that all men with great admiration affirmed it to be a thing more divine than human, to sail by the west into the east where spices grow, by a way that was never known before...
Página 105 - Indians, painted according to their savage fashion, and decorated with their national ornaments of gold. After these were borne various kinds of live parrots, together with stuffed birds and animals of unknown species, and rare plants supposed to be of precious qualities ; while great care was taken to make a conspicuous display of Indian coronets, bracelets, and other decorations of gold, which might give an idea of the wealth of the newly-discovered regions.
Página 30 - And when my father died, in that time when news were brought that Don Christopher Colonus, Genoese, had discovered the coasts of India, whereof was great talk in all the court of King Henry the Seventh, who then...
Página 31 - East where spices growe, by a way that was never knowen before, by this fame and report there increased in my heart a great flame of desire to attempt some notable thing.
Página 3 - The mass of mankind in this hurrying age" he says in his preface, "will neither purchase, peruse nor possess the extensive literature pertaining to the ' Discovery of America.'" He hopes, however, that the work he has compiled will be found to " contain a sufficiently full historical statement, to elucidate the great event the world is preparing to commemorate.
Página 119 - And that this may the easier be done, all the armada is to be charged to deal " lovingly " with the Indians; the admiral is to make them presents, and to " honour them much ; " and if by chance any person or persons should treat the Indians ill, in any manner whatever, the admiral is to chastise such ill-doers severely.
Página 132 - Illinois, in celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
Página 36 - Copernicus pointed out that the difficulties in explaining the planetary movement observations disappeared if one assumed that the sun was the center of the solar system, and that the planets revolved about the sun. Years later, Galileo took up the defense of Copernicus