 | William Robertson - 1780 - 586 pages
...mankind, and the art of an adventurer, folicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous...the narrative of his voyage. He pretended to have difcovered nations fo rich, that the roofs of their temples were covered with plates of gold ; and... | |
 | John Adams - 1795 - 676 pages
...mankind, and the art of an adventurer, folicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous...the narrative of his voyage. He pretended to have difcovered nations fo rich, that the roofs of their temples were covered with plates of gold ; and... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 434 pages
...art of an adventurer, felicitous to magnify hie own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle in extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage. He pretended to have difcovered nations fo rich, that the roofs of their temples were covered with plates of gold ; and... | |
 | William Robertson - 1803 - 456 pages
...mankind, and the art of an adventurer, felicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous...the narrative of his voyage. He pretended to have difcovered nations fo rich, that the roofs of their temples were covered with plates of gold $ and... | |
 | William Robertson - 1809 - 388 pages
...mankind, and the art of an adventurer, solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous...to have extended their dominion over a considerable track of the fertile plains which he had visited. Extravagant as those tales were, they gave rise to... | |
 | William Robertson - 1811 - 502 pages
...mankind, and the art of an adventurer, solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his [#] See NOTI CXXXVII. voyage. He pretended to have discovered nations so rich, that the roofs of their... | |
 | 1816 - 764 pages
...to Spain. The vanity natural to travellers whovifit regions unknown to the reft of mankind, prompted him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous...the narrative of his voyage. He pretended to have difcovered nations ib rich, that the roofs of their temples were covered with plates of gold ; and... | |
 | William Robertson - 1817 - 490 pages
...mankind, and the art of an adventurer, solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous...republic of .women so warlike and powerful, as to have txtended their dominion over a considerable tract of the fertile plains which he had visited. Extravagant... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 480 pages
...of mankind, and the art of an adventurer solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous...rich, that the roofs of their temples were covered >' See NOTE LXXXIII. K oo K with plates of gold ; and described a republic of VI< women so warlike... | |
 | William Robertson - 1821 - 476 pages
...to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of thte marvellous in the narrative of his voyage. He pretended...rich, that the roofs of their temples were covered K oo K with plates of gold ; and described a republic of women so warlike and powerful, as to have... | |
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Cubagua ; from thence he sailed to Spain. The vanity natural to travellers who visit regions unknown to the rest of mankind, and the art of an adventurer solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion... 
