 | Richard Biddle - 1832 - 352 Seiten
...regard it as a natural or acquired talent. In order to determine this, he desired one of the soldiers, who guarded him, to write the name of God on the nail of his thumb. This he shewed successively to several Spaniards, asking its meaning ; and to his amazement, they all, without... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1835 - 630 Seiten
...regard it as a natural or acquired talent. In order to determine this, he desired one of the soldiers, who guarded him, to write the name of God on the nail of his thumb. This he shewed successively to several Spaniards, asking its meaning ; and to his amazement, they all, T without... | |
 | John Frost - 1839 - 178 Seiten
...in order to discover whether they were natural or acquired talents, he requested one of the soldiers who guarded him to write the name of God on the nail of his thumb. The soldier complied; and Atahualpa showed it to several Spanish officers and soldiers, asking its... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 340 Seiten
...was a natural or an acquired one. To satisfy himself on this point, he requested one of the soldiers to write the name of God on the nail of his thumb. This he showed to numbers of the Spaniards, asking its meaning, and, to his astonishment, they all told him... | |
 | Fifty celebrated men - 1862 - 354 Seiten
...FOETH FEOM EVERY AVENUE." acquirements, the arts of reading and writing. One day he desired a soldier who guarded him to write the name of God on the nail of his thumb. This he showed to several Spaniards, asking its meaning, and to his amazement they all gave the same reply,... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1862 - 228 Seiten
...it was a natural or an acquired talent. In order to determine this, he desired one of the soldiers, who guarded him, to write the name of God on the nail of his thumb. This he showed successively to. several Spaniards, asking its meaning, and to his amazement, they all, without... | |
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... regard it as a natural or acquired talent. In order to determine this, he desired one of the soldiers, who guarded him, to write the name of God on the nail of his thumb. This he... 
