Hernando De Soto: Together With an Account of One of His Captains, Gonçalo Silvestre (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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-religionists' withers may escape the pressure of their well-earned pack-saddles, have written of Pizarro and Cortés, describing them as fiends when they were merely conquerors at worst. Others, by piling adjectives on adjectives, have harrowed both our senses and our taste, filling the middle distance of their canvases so full that the whole picture seems less like a portrait than a brilliant palette, left ostentatiously about SO that the unwary visitor to the studio may stand amazed and say, This is indeed a colourist before the Lord. They have succeeded well, so that to-day the Conquest of America is the stock whetting-block on Which all those who touch it sharpen up their Wits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1334249083
- ISBN 13 9781334249082
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- Number of pages307
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