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Selections from "Ferdinand and Isbella," "The Conquest of Mexico" and "The ... - Page 180
by William Hickling Prescott - 1902 - 205 pages
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The North American Review, Volume 65

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 546 pages
...all directions. "The Indian monarch, stunned and bewildered, saw his faithful subjects falling round him without fully comprehending his situation. The...rode heaved to and fro, as the mighty press swayed backwards and forwards ; and he gazed on the overwhelming ruin, like some forlorn mariner, who, tossed...
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The North American Review, Volume 65

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 550 pages
...all directions. " The Indian monarch, stunned and bewildered, saw his faithful subjects falling round him without fully comprehending his situation. The...rode heaved to and fro, as the mighty press swayed backwards and forwards ; and he gazed on the overwhelming ruin, like some forlorn mariner, who, tossed...
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History of the Conquest of Peru: With a Preliminary View of the ..., Volume 1

William Hickling Prescott - 1847 - 350 pages
...Indian monarch, stunned and bewildered, saw his faithful subjects falling round him without hardly comprehending his situation. The litter on which he...rode heaved to and fro, as the mighty press swayed backwards and forwards; and he gazed on the overwhelming ruin, like some forlorn mariner, who, tossed...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 14

1847 - 640 pages
...Indian monarch, stunned and bewildered, saw his faithful subjects falling around him without hardly comprehending his situation. The litter on which he...rode heaved to and fro, as the mighty press swayed backwards and forwards ; and he gazed on the overwhelming ruin, like some forlorn mariner, who, tossed...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 22; Volume 86

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1847 - 806 pages
...Indian monarch, stunned and bewildered, saw his faithful subjects falling round him without hardly comprehending his situation. The litter on which he...rode heaved to and fro, as the mighty press swayed backwards and forwards; and he gazed on the overwhelming ruin, like some forlorn mariner, who, tossed...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1847 - 796 pages
...Indian monarch, stunned and bewildered, saw bis faithful subjects falling round him without hardly comprehending his situation. The litter on which he...rode heaved to and fro, as the mighty press swayed backwards and forwards ; and he gazed on the overwhelming ruin, like some forlorn mariner, who, tossed...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 81

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 580 pages
...Indian monarch, stunned and bewildered, saw his faithful subjects falling round him without hardly comprehending his situation. The litter on which he...rode heaved to and fro, as the mighty press swayed backwards and forwards ; and he gazed on the overwhelming ruin, like some forlorn mariner, who, tossed...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 12

1847 - 610 pages
...Indian monarch, stunned and bewildered, saw his faithful subjects falling round him without hardly comprehending his situation. The litter on which he...rode heaved to and fro, as the mighty press swayed! backwards and forwards: and he gazed on the Overwhelming ruin, like some forlorn mariner, who, tossed...
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The Dublin review, Volume 23

1847 - 560 pages
...The Indian monarch stunned and bewildered, saw his faithful subjects falling round him without hardly comprehending his situation. The litter on which he rode heaved to and fro, as the mighty mass swayed backwards and forwards ; and he gazed on the overwhelming ruin like some forlorn mariner,...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...Indian monarch, stunned and bewildered, saw his faithful subjects falling round him without hardly comprehending his situation. The litter on which he rode heaved to and fro, as the mighty presa swayed backwards and forwards ; and he gazed on the overwhelming rum, like some forlorn mariner,...
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