 | 1828 - 722 pàgines
...part of their majesties to permit this act of vassalage. Raising him in the most gracious manner, they ordered him to seat himself in their presence ; a rare honour in this proud and punctilious court.' In his second voyage be falls in again with the Caribs, of whose courage and cannibal propensities... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 286 pàgines
...part of their majesties to permit this act of vassalage. Raising him in the most gracious manner, they ordered him to seat himself in their presence ; a rare honour in this proud and punctilious court. At the request of their majesties, Columbus now gave an account of the most striking events of his... | |
 | George Merriam - 1828 - 282 pàgines
...presence ; a rare honour in this proud and punctilious court. At the request of their majesties, Columbus now gave an account of the most striking events of his voyage, and a description of the islands which he had discovered. He displayed the specimens he had brought of... | |
 | 1828 - 638 pàgines
...gold, in a vast and splendid saloon." Vol. i. pp. 267-268. Columbus was seated in their presence, and gave an account of the most striking events of his voyage, and a description of the Islands he had discovered. " He displayed the specimens he had brought of unknown... | |
 | 1829 - 762 pàgines
..."of their majesties to permit this act of vassalage. Raising him in the most gracious manner, they ordered him to seat himself in their presence; a rare honour in this proud and punctilious court." We pass over the melancholy story of the ruined fort, and murdered garrison (at Cuba), to which our... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1829 - 306 pàgines
...part of their majesties to permit this act of vassalage. Raising him in the most gracious manner, they ordered him to seat himself in their presence; a rare honour in this proud and punctilious court." "At the request of their majesties, Columbus now gave an account of the most striking events of his... | |
 | 1831 - 460 pàgines
...part of their majesties to permit this act of vassalage. Raising him in the most gracious manner, they ordered him to seat himself in their presence ; a rare honour in this proud and punctilious court. At the request of their majesties, Columbus now gave an account of the most striking events of his... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 pàgines
...presence; a rare honor in this proud and punctilious court. At the request of their majesties, Columbus now gave an account of the most striking events of his voyage, and a description of the islands which he had discovered. He displayed the specimens he had brought of... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 pàgines
...admiration and gratitude of a nation, or rather of a world. At the request of their majesties, Columbus now gave an account of the most striking events of his voyage, and a description of the islands which he had discovered. He displayed the specimens he had brought of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 436 pàgines
...part of their majesties to permit this act of vassalage. Raising him in the most gracious manner, they ordered him to seat himself in their presence ; a rare honour in this proud and punctilious court. f At the request of their majesties, Columbus now gave an account of the most striking events of his... | |
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Raising him in the most gracious manner, they ordered him to seat himself in their presence ; a rare honour in this proud and punctilious court. 
