Strange, that the New World should have no better luck, — that broad America must wear the name of a thief. Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville, who went out, in 1499, a subaltern with Hojeda, and whose highest naval rank was boatswain's... 500 Years of New Words - Página 14por Bill Sherk - 2004 - 312 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
| 1856 - 504 páginas
...truth-speaking Briton should derive from an imposture. Strange, that the New World should have no better luck, that broad America must wear the name of a thief....lying world to supplant Columbus, and baptize half the earth with his own dishonest name. Thus nobody can throw stones. We are equally badly off in our founders... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 324 páginas
...Briton should derive from an impostor. Strange, that the New "World should have no better luck, — that broad America must wear the name of a thief....lying world to supplant Columbus, and baptize half the earth with h'is own dishonest name. Thus nobody can throw stones. We are equally badly off in our founders;... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 200 páginas
...better luck, that broad America must wear the name of a thief. Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle dealer at Seville, who went out in 1499 a subaltern with...lying world to supplant Columbus, and baptize half the earth with his own dishonest name. Thus nobody can throw stones. We are equally badly off in our founders... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 páginas
...truth-speaking Briton should derive from an impostor. Strange, that the New World should have no better luck — that broad America must wear the name of a thief....lying world to supplant Columbus, and baptize half the earth with his own dishonest name. Thus nobody can throw stones. We are equally badly off in our founders... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 páginas
...must wear the name of a thief. Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville, who * William Spence. went out, in 1499, a subaltern with Hojeda, and whose...lying world to supplant Columbus, and baptize half the earth with his own dishonest name. Thus nobody can throw stones. We are equally badly off in our founders... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 páginas
...must wear the name of a thief. Amerigo Vespucci, the pickle-dealer at Seville, who * William Spence. went out, in 1499, a subaltern with Hojeda, and whose...lying world to supplant Columbus, and baptize half the earth with his own dishonest name. Thus nobody can throw stones. We are equally badly off in our founders... | |
| American Geographical Society of New York - 1892 - 1004 páginas
...distinguished philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, in the following passage from his "English Traits": "Strange that broad America must wear the name of...lying world to supplant Columbus and baptize half the earth with his own dishonest name " (English Traits, Riverside ed., 1883, p. 148). More than fifty... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 páginas
...Briton should derive from an impostor. Strange, that the New World should have no better luck, — that broad America must wear the name of a thief....lying world to supplant Columbus, and baptize half the earth with his own dishonest name. Thus nobody can throw stones. We are equally badly off• in our... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 páginas
...Briton should derive from an impostor. Strange, that the New World should have no better luck, — ~I .P/Ph_1PB} | | | | ! U m } q q u i ikY } }`} | W !b"bzt | | ;t| Thus nobody can throw stones. We are equally badly off in our founders ; and the false pickle-dealer... | |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883 - 494 páginas
...Briton should derive from an impostor. Strange, that the New World should have no better luck, — that broad America must wear the name of a thief....lying world to supplant Columbus, and baptize half the earth with his own dishonest name. Thus nobody can throw stones. We are equally badly off in our founders... | |
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