 | William Robertson - 1780 - 586 pages
...folicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an 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... | |
 | John Adams - 1795 - 676 pages
...folicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an 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... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 434 pages
...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
...felicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an 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 - 1809 - 388 pages
...solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage....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
...mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his [#] See NOTI CXXXVII. voyage. He pretended to have discovered nations so...over a considerable tract of the fertile plains which he had visited. Extravagant as those tales were, they gave rise to an opinion, that a region abounding... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 470 pages
...concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvel• Sc» NOTE XIII. vi. lous in the narrative of his voyage. He pretended to have...over a considerable tract of the fertile plains which he had visited. Extravagant as those tales were, they gave rise to an opinion that a region abounding... | |
 | E. Polehamton - 1815 - 470 pages
...to the rest of mankind, and the art of art adventurer, solicitous to magnify his own merit, concored in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary pro. portion...over a considerable tract of the fertile plains which he had visited. Extravagant as those tales were, they gave rise to an opinion that a region abounding... | |
 | 1816 - 764 pages
...whovifit regions unknown to the reft of mankind, prompted him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in 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
...solicitous to magnify his own merit, concurred in prompting him to mingle an extraordinary proportion of the marvellous in the narrative of his voyage....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... | |
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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... 
