"Isabella" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that marriages between whites and Creoles are interdicted. Of Cooper, Irving, Bryant, Audubon, and Longfellow, he speaks in terms of just praise, but Willis is not mentioned. Bancroft and Hildreth are mentioned as historians, Prescott is spoken of briefly in connection with his Ferdinand and Isabella, while his other works are not alluded to. To Herman Melville, M. Chasles devotes fifty pages, while Mr. Ticknor has not even the honor of a mention. The author of this work is very far from doing justice either to American literature or ...
— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various
... the modern world has ever known. On the day when Maximilian, son of Frederick III., Emperor of Germany, wedded Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold, the rivalry between France and the Austrian family began. Philip, son of that marriage, married Juana, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella; and their son, Charles I. of the Spains, became Charles V. of Germany. Thus there centred in his person a degree of power such as no other sovereign could boast, and which alone would have sufficed to make him the rival of the King of France, Francis I., had no ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various
... a mere dealing-out of harmonious sounds."— Kirkham cor. "This is intelligible and sufficient; and any further account of the matter seems beyond the reach of our faculties."—Bp. Butler cor. "Apostrophe is a turning-off from the regular course of the subject."—Mur. et al. cor. "Even Isabella was finally prevailed upon to assent to the sending-out of a commission to investigate his conduct."—Life of Columbus cor. "For the turning-away of the ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... Woodside voyaged to Port Albert in the brig 'Isabella' in the month of June, 1844. This vessel had been employed in taking prisoners to Macquarie Harbour and Port Arthur until the government built a barque called the 'Lady Franklin'; then Captain Taylor bought the brig for the cattle trade. On this voyage he was anxious ...
— The Book of the Bush • George Dunderdale
... Queen Isabella was greatly opposed to these cruel and unjust proceedings. She sent back to their native land the slaves which Columbus had shipped to Spain, and she gave positive orders that no more of the inhabitants were to be enslaved, ...
— Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts • Frank Richard Stockton
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