The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Central America. 1882-87A. L. Bancroft, 1882 |
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Seite 123 - But now that those parts have been more extensively examined, and another fourth part has been discovered by Americus (as will be seen in the sequel), I do not see why we should rightly refuse to name it America, namely, the land of Americus or America, after its discoverer, Americus, a man of sagacious mind, since both Europe and Asia took their names from women.
Seite 398 - ... desired that he should establish his chair in Rome, as a place most convenient for governing the world, yet he permitted that he might establish his chair in any other part of the world, and judge and govern all the nations, Christians, Moors, Jews, Gentiles, and whatever other sect or belief might be.
Seite 57 - 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.
Seite 275 - Indias. he was ardent, ofttimes imprudent, always eloquent and truthful, and as impudently bold and brazen as any cavalier among them all. Nor was he by any means a discontented man. He sought nothing for himself; he had nothing that man could take from him except life, upon which he set no value, or except some of its comforts, which were too poor at best to trouble himself about. His cause, which was the right, gave breadth and volume to his boldness, beside which the courage of the hare-brained...
Seite 370 - Aragon, in whose name, and for the royal crown of Castile, I take real, and corporal, and actual possession of these seas, and lands, and coasts, and ports, and islands of the South, and all thereunto annexed...
Seite 487 - Tell those who sent you that I know not their king, and therefore cannot do him homage; that I fear not their sharp swords, but love peace rather than war; gold has little value, they are welcome to what I have. As to the religion they teach, I will talk with them, and if I like it I will adopt it.
Seite xliv - Informe sobre la erección de Obispo. Guatemala, 1827. Guatemala, Informe que el Cabildo Eclesiástico de la Catedral Guatemala, 1827. Guatemala, Informe sobre los Diferentes Ramos de la Administración. Guatemala, 1844. folio. Guatemala, Instrucción formada de orden de la Junta preparatoria para facilitar las elecciones de Diputados, etc. Guatemala, 1812. 4to. Guatemala, Relación de la tormenta, Set. 15, 1541. In Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col.
Seite 241 - There is a certain meddlesome spirit, which, in the garb of learned research, goes prying about the traces of history, casting down its monuments, and marring and mutilating its fairest trophies. Care should" be taken to vindicate great names from such pernicious erudition.
Seite 207 - Sent to the magnificent lord Raphael Sanxis, treasurer of the same most serene king, and which the noble and learned man, Aliander de Cosco, translated from the Spanish idiom into Latin. The third day of the Calends of May, 1493. Pontificate of Alexander VI., Year One.
Seite 317 - Beside the faults of style and arrangement there are evidences everywhere of inexperience and incompetent assistance. Now that we have before us many of the sources of Herrera's material we can see that his notes were badly extracted, and compiled in a bungling manner; so much so that in addition to the ordinary errors, from which to some extent the most carefully executed work cannot be expected to be wholly free, there are many and serious discrepancies and contradictions for which there is no...