 | 1844 - 792 pàgines
...equipped, should have landed on the shores of a powerful empire, inhabited by a fierce and warlike race, and, in defiance of the reiterated prohibitions...encounter, totally uncertain whether the next step might bring them on a hostile nation, or on a desert, feeling their way along in the dark as it were ; —... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1853 - 734 pàgines
...equipped, should have landed on the shores of a powerful empire, inhabited by a fierce and warlike race, and, in defiance of the reiterated prohibitions of its sovereign, have forced their way into the interior;—that they should have done this, without knowledge of the language of the land, without... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pàgines
...equipped, should have landed on the shores of a powerful empire, inhabiled by a fierce and warlike race, and, in defiance of the reiterated prohibitions...this, without knowledge of the language or of the lanrl, without cliart or compass to gnide tliem, without any idea of the difficulties they were to... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1855 - 738 pàgines
...equipped, should have landed on the shores of a powerful empire, inhabited by a fierce and warlike race, and, in defiance of the reiterated prohibitions...have done this, without knowledge of the language of the land, without chart or compass to guide them, without any idea of the difficulties they were... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - 1855 - 698 pàgines
...equipped, should have landed on the shores of a powerful empire, inhabited by a fierce and warlike race, and, in defiance of the reiterated prohibitions...have done this, without knowledge of the language and the land, without chart or compass to guide them, without any idea of the difficulties they were... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1862 - 524 pàgines
...equipped, should have landed on the shores of a powerful empire, inhabited by a fierce and warlike race, and in defiance of the reiterated prohibitions...have done this, without knowledge of the language of the land, without chart or compass to guide them, without any idea of the difficulties they were... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1863 - 562 pàgines
...equipped, should have landed on the shores of a powerful empire, inhabited by a fierce and warlike race, and in defiance of the reiterated prohibitions...have done this, without knowledge of the language of the land, without chart or compass ±0 guide them, without any idea of the difficulties they were... | |
 | Martin John Spalding - 1894 - 426 pàgines
...equipped, should have landed on the shores of a powerful empire, inhabited by a fierce and warlike race, and, in defiance of the reiterated prohibitions...have done this, without knowledge of the language and the land, without chart or compass to guide them, without any idea of the difficulties they were... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1898 - 524 pàgines
...territory. equipped, should have landed on the shores of a powerful empire inhabited by a fierce and warlike race, and, in defiance of the reiterated prohibitions...encounter, totally uncertain whether the next step might bring them on a hostile nation, or on a desert, feeling their way along in the dark, as it were ; that,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 pàgines
...and equipped, should have landed on the shores of a powerful empire inhabited by a fierce and warlike race, and, in defiance of the reiterated prohibitions...encounter, totally uncertain whether the next step might bring them on a hostile nation or on a desert, feeling their way along in the dark, as it were; that,... | |
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Whatever may be thought of the Conquest in a moral view, regarded as a military achievement, it must fill us with astonishment. That a handful of adventurers, indifferently armed and equipped, should have landed on the shores of a powerful empire, inhabited... 
