 he said, ' on that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For...  The Dublin review - Página 3261847Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1903 - 636 páginas
...storm, desertion, and death; on that side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches, here Panama and its poverty. Choose each man what best...the south." So saying, he stepped across the line, followed by Ruiz, Pedro de Candia, and eleven others; and Tafur, after vainly trying to persuade them... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1904 - 382 páginas
...storm, desertion, and death; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches ; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best...go to the south." So saying, he stepped across the line.2 He was followed by the brave pilot Ruiz; next by Pedro de Candia, a cavalier, born, as his name... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1926 - 208 páginas
...storm, desertion, and death ; on this side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches ; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best...the South.' So saying, he stepped across the line." Here is an heroic event told with that simplicity which means effectiveness. This is the one page in... | |
 | Leon Henry Vincent - 1906 - 548 páginas
...Pizarro, drawing a line from east to west on the sand with his sword and calling on his comrades to choose each man what best becomes a brave Castilian (' For my part ' I go to the south '), is a figure for romantic drama. An Englishman equally daring would have been more or less awkward... | |
 | FRANK CHANNING HADDOCK, M.S., PHD - 1907 - 440 páginas
...storm, desertion and death; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best...the south.' So saying, he stepped across the line." And they followed him. ample of energetic conduct. The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and... | |
 | Frank Channing Haddock - 1907 - 418 páginas
...storm, desertion and death ; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches ; here Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best...the south.' So saying, he stepped across the line." And they followed him. Third Principle — Enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is also a large factor in the matter.... | |
 | Frank Channing Haddock - 1907 - 436 páginas
...storm, desertion and death ; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches ; here Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best...the south.' So saying, he stepped across the line." And they followed him. Thus Napier relates that at the combat of Vera, when the Spanish centre was... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby, Frederick Erastus Pierce, Henry Noble MacCracken, Alfred Arundel May, Thomas Goddard Wright - 1909 - 524 páginas
...storm, desertion, and death; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best...the south.' So saying, he stepped across the line. The sentence beginning with the word " Pizarro " is exposition, for it explains. The next six sentences... | |
 | Mrs. Howard Taylor - 1909 - 564 páginas
...storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. There is Peru with its riches ; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose each man what best...brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south!" And thirteen faithful comrades stepped with him over the line. So inspiring is the incident that the... | |
 | Mrs. Howard Taylor - 1909 - 560 páginas
...storm, desertion, and death ; on this side ease and pleasure. There is Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose each man what best...a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south ! " And thirteen faithful comrades stepped with him over the line. So inspiring is the incident that... | |
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