"Ponce" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the seas; he thought Flanders a garden to be tilled to supply his table, and its wealth, gold for him to squander on Armadas. Italian provinces were his, and Spain was his; and the Western Hemisphere, by his own daring assumption, and the generosity of the papal gift, and the toils of Ponce de Leon and de Soto and Coronado and Pizarro and Cortes, was his. Compared with the wide and bewildering extent of his kingdom, the Roman Empire was a dukedom. His empire spurred him to world-dominion, and he used his patrimony and its fabulous ...
— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle
... Spain that credit is to be given as being the first country of Europe where there are recorded accounts of successful instruction of the deaf. In 1550, or perhaps earlier, Pedro Ponce de Leon of the Order of St. Benedict taught, chiefly by oral methods, several deaf children in the convent of San Salvador de Ona. Great success must have attended his efforts, for in addition to the Spanish language and arithmetic, his pupils are reported to have mastered Latin, Greek and ...
— The Deaf - Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their - Education in the United States • Harry Best
... books characterized by lofty thought, by fine feeling and, as a rule, by a beautiful simplicity of expression. They have another quality, hard to define but easy to understand, a quality which leaves upon us the impression of eternal youth, as if they had been dipped in the fountain which Ponce de Leon sought for in vain through the New World. If a great book could speak, it would use the words of the Cobzar (poet) in ...
— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long
... on this continent of the Spanish and the French, though in itself a captivating story, cannot properly be dwelt on in a history of the growth of the American principle. Ponce de Leon traversed Florida in the first quarter of the Sixteenth Century, hunting for the Fountain of Immortality, and finding death. Hernando de Soto wandered over the area of several of our present Southern States, and discovered the lower ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne
... frottemens, il n'y a que la longueur du tems qui l'ait degrade, et lui ait imprime le caractere de la vetuste. On ne voit que des pierres calcaires, elles sont remplies de trous, de fentes, et de crevasses; beaucoup, paroissent poreuses comme de la la pierre ponce grossiere; le sejour des neiges des eaux, la gelee, et l'intemperie des saisons a tout fait. On voit de tous cotes que l'eau s'y infiltre et s'y perd. L'arrangement de cette espece de pierre par couches, facilite l'entree des eaux dans l'interieur de ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
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