...banquet by Cardinal Mendoza. A shallow courtier present, impatient of the honours paid to Columbus, abruptly asked him whether he thought that in case he had not discovered the Indies, there were not other men in Spain who would have been capable of the enterprise. To this Columbus made no...

...Thomas Y. Crowell, nd), 179-80: "A shallow courtier present [at a banquet], impatient of the honors paid to Columbus, and meanly jealous of him as a foreigner,...that, in case he had not discovered the Indies, there were not other men in Spain who would have been capable of the enterprise? To this Columbus made no...

...have occurred the well-known anecdote of the egg. A shallow courtier present, impatient of the honors paid to Columbus, and meanly jealous of him as a foreigner,...abruptly asked him whether he thought that, in case he lad not discovered the Indies, there were not other men in Spain, who would have been capable of the...

...which were observed towards sovereigns. A shallow courtier present, who was meanly jealous of him, abruptly asked him whether he thought that in case he had not discovered the Indies, there were not other men in Spain who would have been capable of the enterprise? Columbus made no reply,...