World-Noted Women: Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands And Ages
World-Noted Women: Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands And Ages
Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809-1898
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This he did with BO much eloquence and skill, that while the imagination of the king was dazzled with ideas of gain and dominion, that of Isabella was fired with the hope of extending the light of Christianity over nations ignorant and heathen. Even then, Ferdinand's calculating spirit would have placed a bar to the frilfilment of the project , ISABELLA OF CASTILE. 268 for, npon Columbus's stipulations on his side being announced, the king demurred to them ; and as nothing could induce the stou...t- hearted Grenoese to relinquish points that he knew to be his due, the conferences were broken off, and he once more left the Span- ish court, to try his fortune elsewhere. The fHends he had thei-e, ventured boldly to represent to the queen the risk she ran of be- holding some other monarchy avail itself of Columbus's services to secure the glory and advantage of his discoveries; and one of them went so far as to remind Isabella that her present policy was not in accordance with the magnanimous spirit which had hitherto made her the ready patron of great and heroic enterprise.
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