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... discovery . It is true that among those stories there are some of which the absurdity is so palpable as hardly to require demonstration . For one , there is no better evidence than the testimony of a fifteenth - century poem and of a ...
... discovery . It is true that among those stories there are some of which the absurdity is so palpable as hardly to require demonstration . For one , there is no better evidence than the testimony of a fifteenth - century poem and of a ...
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... discovery of America by Columbus , the exact contrary is true . The wonder is not that it should have astonished those who then lived , but that it should have astonished them so little ; not that the magnitude of the event should have ...
... discovery of America by Columbus , the exact contrary is true . The wonder is not that it should have astonished those who then lived , but that it should have astonished them so little ; not that the magnitude of the event should have ...
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... Discovery of North America . Paris , 1892. ( 2 vols . ) HERRERA , ANTONIO DE . Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas í Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano . Madrid , 1730. ( 3 vols . ) HUMBOLDT , ALEXANDER VON . Examen ...
... Discovery of North America . Paris , 1892. ( 2 vols . ) HERRERA , ANTONIO DE . Historia General de los Hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas í Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano . Madrid , 1730. ( 3 vols . ) HUMBOLDT , ALEXANDER VON . Examen ...
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