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I have wished, most illustrious Prince, to give you these details about the parrots; and although the opinion of Columbus seems to be contradictory to the theories of the ancients concerning the size of the globe and its circumnavigation, the birds and many other objects brought thence seem to indicate that these islands do belong, be it by proximity or by their products, to India; particularly when one recalls what Aristotle, at the end of his treatise De Cælo et Mundo, and Seneca, and other learned cosmographers have always affirmed, that India was only separated from the west coast of Spain by a very small expanse of sea.
Ubi sunt, qui ante nos in mundo fuere? Vadite ad superos, transits ad inferos, ubi jam fuere. Vita nostra brevis est, brevi finietur, venit mors velociter, rapit nos atrociter, nemini parcetur. Vivant omnes virgines faciles, formosae, vivant et mulieres, vivant et mulieres bonae, laboriosae.
Upon the handsome monument erected to the memory of Columbus in Seville by Ferdinand and Isabella, is the simple inscription, "A Castile y Leon, nuevo mundo dio Colon" "to Castile and Leon, Columbus gave a new world." This was the tardy recognition granted to the discoverer by those to whom he had made the marvelous gift.
"This is probably the document that scoundrel Alvarez was looking for while the Gloria del Mundo was sinking," said Roger, who had related to Harry all that had happened while he was awaiting death in the cabin of the Spanish vessel. "Hardly that," demurred Harry.
The BLENHEIM then passing between them and the enemy, gave them a respite, and poured in her fire upon the Spaniards. The SALVADOR DEL MUNDO and SAN ISIDRO dropped astern, and were fired into in a masterly style by the EXCELLENT, Captain Collingwood. The SAN ISIDRO struck; and Nelson thought that the SALVADOR struck also.
In passing, they suggested to the editor of the Nuevo Mundo that he should not permit me to write again for the magazine. I wrote an article once dealing with Maceo and Cuba, whereupon a journalist from those parts jumped up and called me a fat Basque ox. The Catalans have also obliged me with some choice insults, which I have found engaging.
Liberty, virtue, happiness, seemed ready to descend upon the earth. "Jam nova progenies caelo demittitur alto, Ac toto surget gens aurea mundo." As each week brought the news of some stupendous change, a kind of madness seized upon the minds of men. Fanatics were jubilant. "Revolutions," they said, "can do no wrong; all are for the best."
"So," thought Roger to himself, "it would appear that I am on board the Gloria del Mundo, and that the action is as yet undecided. But Senor de Soto is, I imagine, somewhat mistaken if he seriously believes that Cavendish will surrender his ships; rather will he let them sink with colours flying.
Arist De mundo II. 7. Early monuments prove that they were acquainted with the identity of the morning and evening star. "Tachot kissed the child and gave her her own costly fan.
and assuredly the famous quintillas beginning Aqui la envidia y mentira: these compositions were probably composed during, or after, the writer's imprisonment at Valladolid, that is to say between the spring of 1572 and the winter of 1576, when Luis de Leon was from forty-four or forty-five to forty-eight or forty-nine. Del mundo y su vanidad glances at
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