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Excerpt from The Dream of the MagiAT Como, in the old church of Sant Abbondio, there is a fourteenth century picture that the guide-book describes as an unusual subject, showing the Magi in their beds. Painters have portrayed them kneel ing in adoration before the babe of Bethlehem, with ox and ass looking benignly down in equal adoration from their stalls. Outside their horses wait, held by their attendants, horses such as the painters of the...

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Excerpt from Hernando De Soto: Together With an Account of One of His Captains, Gonçalo SilvestreMankind, that dearly loves a scapegoat to bear the burden of its sins, has made the Spanish Conquest of America one of its favourite episodes at which to raise its eyes in horror to that Heaven that it tries vainly to deceive.Pious historians, Protestant in creed, self-righteous, and agog to intensify the sins of other faiths, SO that their co-reli...

Excerpt from The IpanéAnd so of books. Few men know why they write, and most men are ashamed of all they do when once it stares them in the face in moulded type.Thank Heaven I wrote that which is here collected to please no single being, and if my own feelings may be taken as the measure of the dis cerning public's generous judgment, I have succeeded well.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic bo...

bTitle:/b Mograbel-Acksa: a journey in Morocco, etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, ...

Excerpt from Hernando De Soto: Together With an Account of One of His Captains, Gonçalo Silvestre Mankind, that dearly loves a scapegoat to bear the burden of its Sins, has made the Spanish Conquest of America one of its favourite episodes at which to raise its eyes in horror to that Heaven that it tries vainly to deceive. Pious historians, Protestant in creed, self-righteous, and agog to intensify the sins of other faiths, so that their co-...

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Excerpt from The IpanéAnd so of books. Few men know why they write, and most men are ashamed of all they do when once it stares them in the face in moulded type.Thank Heaven I wrote that which is here collected to please no single being, and if my own feelings may be taken as the measure of the dis cerning public's generous judgment, I have succeeded well.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic bo...