| William Hickling Prescott - 1847 - 350 pages
...of the new continent, which seemed to stretch its leviathan length along from one pole to the other. The discovery of an Indian passage is the true key...fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth centuries. It was the great leading idea that gave the character to the enterprise of the age. It is not easy... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1847 - 714 pages
...seemed to stretch its leviathan length along from one pole to the other. The discovery of an lndian passage is the true key to the maritime movements...fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth centuries. lt was the great leading idea that gave the character to the enterprise of the age. lt is not easy... | |
| Peter F. Stout - 1859 - 396 pages
...leading to the Indian Spice Islands. " The discovery of a strait into the Indian Ocean," says Prescott, " was the burden of every order from the Government....fifteenth, and the first half of the sixteenth centuries." And again : " The eagerness to explore the wonderful secrets of the New TTemisphere became so active,... | |
| Peter F. Stout - 1859 - 384 pages
...leading to the Indian Spice Islands. " The discovery of a strait into the Indian Ocean," says Prescott, " was the burden of every order from the Government....the fifteenth, and the first half of the sixteenth centuries.'7 And again : "The eagerness to explore the wonderful secrets of the New Hemisphere became... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1874 - 560 pages
...of the new continent, which seemed to stretch its leviathan length along from one pole to the other. The discovery of an Indian passage is the true key...the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century. It was the great leading idea that gave its peculiar character to the enterprise of the age.... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pages
...the new continent, which seemed to stretch its leviathan" length along from one pole to the other. The discovery of an Indian passage is the true key...fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth centuries. It was the great leading idea that gave the character to the enterprise of the age. 5. It is not easy... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - 1879 - 380 pages
...for discovery and exploration in the new lands. 1 1 " The discovery of a strait into the Indian ocean is the true key to the maritime movements of the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth century. "—Preseott. In 1497, John Cabot (kab'-bot), accompanied by his son Sebastian, sailing under... | |
| Alfred Williams - 1880 - 150 pages
...Prescott, '' was the burden of every order from the government." The discovery of a new route to India, "is the true key to the maritime movements of the...fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth centuries." One of the most important results of these Spanish explorations was the discovery of the Pacific Ocean... | |
| 1880 - 902 pages
...during half a century later. Prescott says that the discovery of a new and shorter route to the Indies " is the true key to the maritime movements of the fifteenth and the first half of the sixteenth centuries." But, failing to find " the secret of the strait," men of enterprise began to think of cutting the knot... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1887 - 804 pages
...earnest sympathies and efforts of the Old and New World, from the discovery of the Isthmus of Panamd down to the present time. The great historian Prescott...into her treasury all the wealth of that ''marvellous land of exaggeration, the Spice Islands, sent Columbus, Pizarro, Cortfe, Balboa, Gil Gouzales, and... | |
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