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Page 13 - It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible.
Page xliii - An Historical and Geographical Memoir of the North American Continent, its Nations and Tribes. By the Rev. James Bentley Gordon.
Page 109 - He was the first to recognize that a new and unknown continent was lying, as one vast barrier, between Western Europe and Eastern Asia.
Page 57 - When Friar Thomas arrived at his lodgings, he retired to a private chamber, and would not be visited by any but those of the family, except for a few moments. At the conclusion of his sermons, he earnestly admonished the audience, on the damnation of their souls and on pain of excommunication, to bring to him whatever backgammon-boards, chess-boards, ninepins, or other instruments for games of amusement, they might possess.
Page lxvi - A view of the coasts, countries and islands within the limits of the South Sea Company.
Page 95 - ... from the New World after his first voyage, Ferdinand and Isabella requested of the Pope the suzerainty of the new lands just discovered. The Pope, Alexander VI, a Spaniard and supposedly friendly to the Spanish King, acceded and decreed the famous Bull of 1493, dividing the world into two zones by a line drawn from Pole to Pole one hundred leagues west of the Azores and Cape Verde Islands. His right to do so was facetiously questioned by the French King, Francis I, who when informed of the decree...
Page 28 - Jews followed him, intending to touch him, — in the attempt of which, the caparison of his horse was all torn. — Wherever he passed, the pope distributed money, — that is to say, quadrini and mailles of Florence, with other coins. There were before and behind him two hundred men-at-arms, each having in his hand a leathern mallet, with which they struck the Jews in such wise as it was a pleasure to see.
Page 26 - Mr. Ward, English consul at Mexico in 1825-7, affirms that "the son, who had the misfortune to be born of a Creole mother, was considered as an inferior, in the house of his own father, to the European book-keeper or clerk, for whom the daughter, if there were one, and a large share of the fortune were reserved. 'Eres criollo y basta;' You are a Creole and that is enough, was a common phrase amongst the Spaniards when angry with their children.
Page 15 - Roman writers to the ancient Iberians, are all more or less characteristic of the Spaniards of modern times. The courtesy and gallantry of the Spaniard to women has also come down to him from his Iberian ancestors...
Page 98 - ... things. Under John the Great, who reigned from 1385 to 1433, the Portuguese began to take revenge for the long possession of Spain by the Saracens of Africa by conquests in Africa itself. And at the same time, under the Infant or prince Don Henry, they began a course of navigation and discovery along the western coast of Africa and among the islands of the Atlantic, which went on during the whole of the fifteenth century. At last the great discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in 1486 opened for...