History of Spanish Literature, vol. 1 (of 3)Ticknor, George
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History of Spanish Literature, vol. 1 (of 3)
Ticknor, George
Spanish literature -- History and criticism
[336] One of the prophecies he supposed himself called on to
fulfil was that in the eighteenth Psalm. (Navarrete, Col., Tom.
I. pp. xlviii., xlix., note; Tom. II. pp. 262-266.) In King
James’s version, the passage stands thus:--“Thou hast made me the
head of the heathen; a people whom I have not known shall serve
me. As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me; the strangers
shall submit themselves unto me.” vv. 43, 44.
[337] “Ya dije que para la esecucion de la impresa de las Indias
no me aprovechó razon ni matematica ni mapamundos;--llenamente se
cumplió lo que dijo Isaías, y esto es lo que deseo de escrebir
aquí por le reducir á V. A. á memoria, y porque se alegren del
otro que yo le dije de Jerusalen por las mesmas autoridades, de
la qual impresa, si fe hay, tengo por muy cierto la vitoria.”
Letter of Columbus to Ferdinand and Isabella (Navarrete, Col.,
Tom. II. p. 265). And elsewhere in the same letter he says: “Yo
dije que diria la razon que tengo de la restitucion de la Casa
Santa á la Santa Iglesia; digo que yo dejo todo mi navegar desde
edad nueva y las pláticas que yo haya tenido con tanta gente
en tantas tierras y de tantas setas, y dejo las tantas artes y
escrituras de que yo dije arriba; solamente me tengo á la Santa
y Sacra Escritura y á algunas autoridades proféticas de algunas
personas santas, que por revelacion divina han dicho algo desto.”
Ibid., p. 263.
[338] “Segund esta cuenta, no falta, salvo ciento e cincuenta y
cinco años, para complimiento de siete mil, en los quales digo
arriba por las autoridades dichas que habrá de fenecer el mundo.”
Ibid., p. 264.
[339] See the very beautiful passage about the Orinoco River,
mixed with prophetical interpretations, in his account of his
third voyage, to the King and Queen, (Navarrete, Col., Tom. I.
pp. 256, etc.,)--a singular mixture of practical judgment and
wild, dreamy speculation. “I believe,” he says, “that _there_ is
the terrestrial paradise, at which no man can arrive except by
the Divine will,”--“Creo, que allá es el Paraiso terrenal, adonde
no puede llegar nadie, salvo por voluntad divina.” The honest
Clavijo thought he had found another river of paradise on just
the opposite side of the earth, as he journeyed to Samarcand,
nearly a century before. Vida del Gran Tamorlan, p. 137.
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