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Title: Quotes and Images From Christopher Columbus by Filson Young
Author: Filson Young
Edited and Arranged by David Widger
Release Date: August 30, 2004 [EBook #7540]
[Last updated on February 19, 2007]
Language: English
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QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM COLUMBUS BY YOUNG
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
By Filson Young
A man standing on the sea-shore
Absent for a little time, and his
organisation went to pieces
All days, however hard, have an
evening, and all journeys an end
Amerigo Vespucci
And every one goes naked and unashamed
At last extricate himself from the
theological stupor
Attempts that have been made to glorify
him socially
Bede, in the eighth century,
established it finally (sphericity)
Began to offer bargains to the Almighty
Believed that the Spaniards came from
heaven
Biography which obscures the truth with
legends and pretences
Cannibal epicures did not care for the
flesh of women and boys
Christian era denied the theory of the
roundness of the earth
Columbus, calling for an egg, laid a
wager
Columbus never once mentions his wife
Columbus's habit of being untruthful in
regard to his own past
Cooling off in his enthusiasm as the
pastime became a task
Desire to get a great deal of money
without working for it
Diminishing object to the wet eyes of
his mother, sailed away
Dogs wagged their tails, but that never
barked
Establishment of ten footmen and twenty
other servants
Exchanging the natives for cattle
First known discovery of tobacco by
Europeans
First organised transaction of slavery
on the part of Columbus
Freed by force and with guns
Having issued three Bulls in twenty-four hours,
he desisted
He had a way of rising above petty
indignities
He was a great stickler for the
observances of religion
Hearts quick to burn, quick to forget
Heretics were being burned every year
by the G
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