 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 502 pàgines
...invited the company to make it stand upon one end. Every one attempted it, but in vain, whereupon he struck it upon the table so AS to break the end, and...World, nothing was easier than to follow it.' The favour shown Columbus by the Sovereigns, ensured him, for a time, the caresses of the nobility: for... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 574 pàgines
...invited the company to make it stand upon one end. Every one attempted it, but in vain, whereupon he struck it upon the table so as to break the end- and...broken part ; illustrating, in this simple manner, -*- -« when he had once shown the way to the Chap. VII.] ATTENTIONS PAID HIM. 433 New World, nothing... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 346 pàgines
...attempted it, but in vain ; whereupon he struck it upon the table, broke one end, and left it standing OH the broken part; illustrating, in this simple manner,...new world, nothing was easier than to follow it. The joy occasioned by this great discovery was not confined to Spain; the whole civilized world was filled... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pàgines
...invited the company to make it (land upon one tod. Every one attempted it, but in vain, whereupon lie struck it upon the table so as to break the end, and...the New World, nothing was easier than to follow it. This anecdote rests on the authority of the Italian historian Bcnzoni. It has been condemned as trivial,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1833 - 290 pàgines
...invited the company to make it stand on one end. Every one attempted it, but in vain ; whereupon he struck it upon the table so as to break the end, and...new world, nothing was easier than to follow it." For a time Columbus was "honoured by the sovereigns, courted by the great, and idolized by the people... | |
 | 1834 - 222 pàgines
...invited the company to make it stand upon one end. Every one attempted it, but in vain, whereupon he struck it upon the table so as to break the end, and...the New World, nothing was easier than to follow it. This anecdote rests on the authority of the Italian historian, Benzoni. It has been condemned as trivial,... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1835 - 630 pàgines
...r landing on the broken part, illustrating, in this simple mauner, that when he had once shewn ihr way to the new world, nothing was easier than to follow it. The pimento of the islands he imagined to be a species of the East Indian pepper. He mistook a root, somewhat... | |
 | 1839 - 580 pàgines
...egg, invited the company to make it stand upon one end. All attempted it, but in vain, whereupon he struck it upon the table so as to break the end, and left it standing upon the broken part. This, in the most simple manner, illustrated the fact, that when he had once... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1847 - 708 pàgines
...on one end. Every one attempted it, but in vain ; whereupon he struck it upon the table, broke one end, and left it standing on the broken part ; illustrating,...the new world, nothing was easier than to follow it. — Now, I trust, ladies and gentlemen, you are satisfied by your inspection that I have not broken... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1847 - 470 pàgines
...egg, invited the company to make it stand upon one end. All attempted it, but in vain, whereupon he struck it upon the table so as to break the end, and left it standing upon the broken part. This, in the «nost simple manner, illustrated the fact, that when he had once... | |
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Columbus made no immediate reply, but, taking an egg, invited the company to make it stand on one end. Every one attempted it, but in vain ; whereupon he struck it upon the table so as to break the end, and left it standing on the broken part ; illustrating... 
