Columbus the discoverer . unfort-unately, ungovernable. It led him to a greatdiscovery (which he was not seeking for);and he was far enough right to make his errormore emphatic. He is certainly not aloneamong the great men of the worlds regardwho have some of the attributes of the smalland the mean. The grand object to which he dedicatedhimself, wrote the talented Prescott (authorof Ferdinand and Isabella), seemed to ex-pand his whole soul, and raised it above thepetty shifts and artifices by which great ends299 COLUMBUS are sometimes sought to be compassed. Thereare some men, in whom rare vir
Columbus the discoverer . unfort-unately, ungovernable. It led him to a greatdiscovery (which he was not seeking for);and he was far enough right to make his errormore emphatic. He is certainly not aloneamong the great men of the worlds regardwho have some of the attributes of the smalland the mean. The grand object to which he dedicatedhimself, wrote the talented Prescott (authorof Ferdinand and Isabella), seemed to ex-pand his whole soul, and raised it above thepetty shifts and artifices by which great ends299 COLUMBUS are sometimes sought to be compassed. Thereare some men, in whom rare virtues havebeen closely allied, if not to positive vice,to degrading weakness. Columbuss charac-ter presented no such humiliating incon-gruity. Whether we contemplate it in itspublic or private relations, in all its featuresit wears the same noble aspect. It was inperfect harmony with the grandeur of hisplans and their results, more stupendousthan those which Heaven has permitted anyother mortal to achieve. THE END 104 ,.W. ^ •?• v^^ *V
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