History of the New World Called America: book I. Discovery. book II. Aboriginal America

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At the Clarendon Press, 1892 - America
 

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Page 49 - Perigli siete giunti all' occidente, A questa tanto picciola vigilia Dei vostri sensi, ch' è del rimanente, Non vogliate negar l' esperienza, Diretro al sol, del mondo senza gente. Considerate la vostra semenza : Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, Ma per seguir virtute e conoscenza.
Page 24 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Page 7 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 42 - Et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis : a prophecy, as it seems, of the Roman empire. Seneca the tragedian hath these verses : Venient annis Specula seris, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens Pateat tellus, Tiphysque novos Detegat orbes, nee sit terris Ultima Thule : a prophecy of the discovery of America.
Page 13 - The events we are witnesses of, in the course of the longest life, appear to us very often original, unprepared, single, and unrelative, if I may use such an expression for want of a better in English; in French I would say isoles...
Page 428 - ... dancing, clapping of hands, holding up of hands, and staring up into the heavens, uttering therewithal and chattering strange words and noises.
Page 67 - The entire roof is covered with a plating of gold, in the same manner as we cover houses, or more properly churches, with lead. The ceilings of the halls are of the same precious metal; many of the apartments have small tables of pure gold, of considerable thickness; and the windows also have golden ornaments. So vast, indeed, are the riches of the palace, that it is impossible to convey an idea of them.
Page 60 - has not proved advantageous to the party of Nayan, the effect has been consistent with reason and justice, inasmuch as he was a rebel and a traitor to his lord, and to such wretches it could not afford its protection. Let none therefore presume to charge with injustice the God of the Christians, who is Himself the perfection of goodness and of justice.
Page 239 - For divers mariners had it tried, And sailed straight by the coast side Above five thousand mile ! But what commodities be within, No man can tell nor well imagine ; But yet not long ago Some men of this country went, By the king's noble consent, It for to search to that intent, And could not be brought thereto ; But they that were th...

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