 | Richard Snowden - 1806 - Страниц: 392
...persons to whose decision his project Was referred were the chief directors of the Portuguese navigation, and had advised to search for a passage to India by...more certain. They could not therefore, approve of Msproposal, without submitting to the double mortification, of condemning their own theory, and of... | |
 | Richard Snowden - 1809 - Страниц: 396
...whose decision his project was referred were the chief directors of the Portuguese navigation, und hud advised to search for a passage to India by steering...Columbus recommended, as shorter and more certain. They conld not, therefore, approve of his proposal, without submitting to the double mortification, of condemning... | |
 | William Winterbotham - 1819 - Страниц: 606
...combat with prejudice, an enemy no lefs fornidable. The pcrfons, according to whofe decifion his fcheme was to be adopted or rejected, had been the chief directors of the Portuguefe * navigations, and had advifed to fearch for a paflage to India, by fleering a courfe direftly... | |
 | William Robertson - 1821 - Страниц: 614
...had opposed and disappointed Columbus, in Lisbon, he bad to combat wilh prejudice, an enemy no less formidable. The persons, according to whose decision...steering a course directly opposite to that which Columbns recommended as shorter and more certain. They could not, therefore, approve of his proposal,... | |
 | 1823 - Страниц: 878
...cosmographers, whom he was accustomed to consult in matters of this kind. Unhappily these were the persons who had been the chief directors of the Portuguese navigations,...a course directly opposite to that which Columbus had recommended as shorter and more certain. They could not therefore approve of his proposal, without... | |
 | William Robertson - 1825 - Страниц: 490
...had opposed and disappointed Columbus; in Lisbon, he had to combat with prejudice, an enemy no less formidable. The persons, according to whose decision...rejected, had been the chief directors of the Portuguese navigai Herrera, Hist. de las Indias Occid. dec. i. lib. ic 7. tions, and had advised to search for... | |
 | William Robertson - 1825 - Страниц: 484
...had opposed and disappointed Columbus; in Lisbon, he had to combat with prejudice, an enemy no less formidable. The persons, according to whose decision...rejected, had been the chief directors of the Portuguese navigaTHE HISTORY BOOK u. by whom he is deceived. tions, and had advised to search for a passage to... | |
 | Coates, W. J, McIntosh, John - 1836 - Страниц: 162
...voyages, that they could form no just idea of the principles on which he founded his hopes of success. The persons according to whose decision his scheme was to be adopted or rejected in Portugal, had been the chief directors of the Portuguese navigations, and contended with great confidence... | |
 | John McIntosh - 1843 - Страниц: 332
...voyages, that they could form no just idea of the principles on which he founded his hopes of success. The persons according to whose decision his scheme was to be adopted or rejected in Portugal, had been the chief directors of the Portuguese navigations, and contended with great confidence... | |
 | William Robertson - 1851 - Страниц: 774
...had opposed and disappointed Columbus ; in Lisbon he had to combat with prejudice, an enemy no less formidable. The persons, according to whose decision...directly opposite to that which Columbus recommended as short and more certain. They could not, therefore, approve of his proposal, without submitting to the... | |
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The persons, according to whose decision his scheme was to be adopted or rejected, had been the chief directors of the Portuguese navigations, and... 