Columbus and His Predecessors: A Study in the Beginnings of American HistoryJ. J. McVey, 1912 - 224 páginas |
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... centuries , when greater and more enlightened travellers went into Central Asia and even as far as China these travellers were forgotten . 10 CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS II For five hundred years afterward there was CHRISTIAN' Pilgrims.
... centuries , when greater and more enlightened travellers went into Central Asia and even as far as China these travellers were forgotten . 10 CHRISTIAN PILGRIMS II For five hundred years afterward there was CHRISTIAN' Pilgrims.
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... hundred years afterward there was indeed much travel but little of geographical theory . The semi - barbarous conquerors of the Empire of the West had not yet come to appre- ciate the civilization which they had nearly de- stroyed . In ...
... hundred years afterward there was indeed much travel but little of geographical theory . The semi - barbarous conquerors of the Empire of the West had not yet come to appre- ciate the civilization which they had nearly de- stroyed . In ...
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... hundred years they had ruled one - half the British Isles . Their devastation of Irish . colonies has been noticed . Indeed , the Danish invasions first arrested the development in Ire- land itself of a flourishing civilization . That ...
... hundred years they had ruled one - half the British Isles . Their devastation of Irish . colonies has been noticed . Indeed , the Danish invasions first arrested the development in Ire- land itself of a flourishing civilization . That ...
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... hundred years . Indeed , they practically destroyed the Anglo - Saxon monarchy in one October day . Wales , Scotland , Ireland , Italy and Palestine were destined soon to become acquainted with 1It is well known that there is some ...
... hundred years . Indeed , they practically destroyed the Anglo - Saxon monarchy in one October day . Wales , Scotland , Ireland , Italy and Palestine were destined soon to become acquainted with 1It is well known that there is some ...
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... hundred and sixty men . From the western settlement they sailed to Bear Island ; thence southward for two doegr2 until they saw 1Arthur Middleton Reeves , The Finding of Wineland the Good , p . 36 . 2It is not certain whether the term ...
... hundred and sixty men . From the western settlement they sailed to Bear Island ; thence southward for two doegr2 until they saw 1Arthur Middleton Reeves , The Finding of Wineland the Good , p . 36 . 2It is not certain whether the term ...
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Columbus and His Predecessors: A Study in the Beginnings of American History Charles Hallan McCarthy Sin vista previa disponible - 2023 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 194 - 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 96 - Seneca the tragedian hath these verses: --Venient annis Saecula seris, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens Pateat Tellus, Tiphysque novos Detegat orbes; nec sit terris Ultima Thule: a prophecy of the discovery of America.
Página 126 - D. Isag Abrahan por otro tanto que "prestó á sus Altezas para los gastos de la guerra, é el un "cuento ciento cuarenta mil maravedís restantes para pagar "al dicho Escribano de Racion en cuenta de otro tanto que "prestó para la paga de las carabelas que sus Altezas man"daron ir de armada á las Indias, é para pagar á Cristóbal "Colon que va en la dicha armada.
Página 125 - Dio y pago mas el dicho Alonso de las Cabezas «(Tesorero de la Cruzada en el Obispado de Badajoz) »por otro libramiento del dicho Arzobispo de Gra»nada, fecho 5 de Mayo de 92 años...
Página 124 - Tesorero de la Hermandad desde el año 1491 hasta el de 1493, en el finiquito de ellas, se lee la partida siguiente: "Vos fueron recibidos...
Página 22 - I believe it will be well," answered the King, " and thither thou shalt go upon my errand, to proclaim Christianity there." Leif replied that the King should decide, but gave it as his belief that it would be difficult to carry this mission to a successful issue in Greenland. The King replied that he knew of no man who would be better fitted for this undertaking; "and in thy hands the cause will surely prosper.
Página 140 - I saw the royal banners of your highnesses placed by force of arms on the towers of the Alhambra, which is the fortress of that city, and beheld the Moorish king sally forth from the gates of the city, and kiss the royal hands of your highnesses...
Página 194 - I was very yong, yet having neverthelesse some knowledge of letters of humanitie, and of the Sphere. And when my father died in that time when...
Página 174 - The caravels set sail early in October, bearing off Columbus shackled like the vilest of culprits, amid the scoffs and shouts of. a miscreant rabble, who took a brutal joy in heaping insults on his venerable head, and sent curses after him from the shores of the island he had so recently added to the civilized world.
Página 200 - Blest and thrice blest the Roman Who sees Rome's brightest day, Who sees that long victorious pomp Wind down the Sacred Way, And through the bellowing Forum, And round the Suppliant's Grove, Up to the everlasting gates Of Capitolian Jove.