| William Robertson - America - 1787 - 402 pages
...knowledge of a new world. Ferdinand and Ifabella received him clad in their royal robes, and feated upon a throne , under a magnificent canopy. When he approached...take his feat upon a chair prepared for him , and to give a circumftantial account of his voyage. He delivered it with » gravity and compofure no lefs... | |
| William Winterbotham - America - 1796 - 644 pages
...knowledge of a new world. Ferdinand and Kabella received him cjad in their royal robes, and icated upon a throne, under a magnificent canopy. When he approached they ftood up, and railing him as he kneeled to kits their hands, commanded him to take his icat upon a chair prepared... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 434 pages
...They were no kfs delighted than aitoniihed with this unexpected event. They gave orders for conducing him into the city with all imaginable pomp. They received...under a magnificent canopy. When he approached, they flood up ; and, raifing him as he kneeled to kife their hands, commanded him to take his feat upon... | |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...his arrival. They were no lefs delighted than aftonifhed with this unexpected event. They gave orders for conducting him into the city with all imaginable...magnificent canopy. When he approached, they ftood up ; and, raifnig him as he kneeled to kifs their hands, commanded him to take his feat upon a chair . prepared... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...his arrival. They were no less delighted than astonished with this unexpected event. They gave orders for conducting him into the city with all imaginable...pomp. They received him clad in their royal robes, and seated on a throne under a magnificent canopy. When he approached, they stood up ; and, raising him... | |
| John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 632 pages
...his arrival. They were no less delighted than astonished with the unexpected event. They gave orders for conducting him into the city with all imaginable...pomp. They received him clad in their royal robes, and seated on a throne under a magnificent canopy. When he approached, they stood up ; and raising him... | |
| John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 622 pages
...his arrival. They were no less delighted than astonished with the unexpected event. They gave orders for conducting him into the city with all imaginable...pomp. They received him clad in their royal robes, and seated on a throne under a magnificent canopy. When he approached, they stood up ; and raising him... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 828 pages
...his arrival. They were no less delighted than astonished with the unexpected event. They gave orders for conducting him into the city with all imaginable...pomp. They received him clad in their royal robes, and seated on a throne under a magnificent canopy. When he approached, they stood up ; ar.d raising him... | |
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