Works: A Contemporary Version, Tập 14St.Hubert Guild, 1901 |
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Trang 192 - Genoa, which was his native country, treated his schemes as visionary, and by that means lost the only opportunity that could have offered of aggrandizing her power Henry VII. king of England, who was too greedy of money to hazard any on this noble attempt, would not listen to the proposals made by Columbus's brother ; and Columbus himself was rejected by John II.
Trang 195 - Canada on the ice ; and that their descendants, afterwards born in Canada, had gone and peopled Peru. According to others again, the Chinese and Japanese sent colonies into America, and carried over lions with them for their diversion, though there are no lions either in China or Japan. In this manner have many learned men argued upon the discoveries made by men of genius.
Trang 196 - Vespusius, a merchant of Florence, had the honour of giving his name to this new half of the globe, in which he did not possess one acre of land, and pretended to be the first who discovered the continent.
Trang 198 - The inhabitants of these islands, and of the continent, were a new race of men. They were all without beards, and were as much astonished at the faces of the Spaniards, as they were at their ships and artillery: they at first looked upon these new visitors as monsters or gods, who had come out of the sky or the sea.
Trang 87 - Honor, glory, and riches shall be the reward of your pains ; but above all do not fail to rid the country of those zealous scoundrels who stir up the people to revolt against us. Such monsters should be exterminated, as I have exterminated Michael Servetus, the Spaniard.
Trang 191 - It is to the discoveries of the Portuguese in the old world, that we are indebted for the new ; if we may call the conquest of America an obligation, which proved so fatal to its inhabitants, and at times to the conquerors themselves.
Trang 197 - Vespusius had made one as a geographer, under the command of admiral Ojeda ; but this latter writing to his friends at Florence, that he had discovered a new world, they believed him on his word ; and the citizens of Florence decreed, that a grand illumination should be made before the door of his house every three years, on the feast of All Saints.
Trang 196 - But mankind delight todojuftice totheilluftrious dead, either from a vain hope that they enhance thereby the merit of the living, or that they are naturally fond of truth.
Trang 81 - Hence it came that those of the reformed religion in France had the name of Egnots, or Huguenots, given them; an appellation for which the greater part of the French writers have since invented many idle origins.