 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 էջ
...first letter COBTEZ TO CHARLES V 271 to the Emperor, Charles V., " I was presented with gold plate and jewels of such precious workmanship, that unwilling...doubt if any other prince on earth ever possessed anything similar to them. That your Highness may not imagine I am advancing fables. I may add that... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1814 - 524 էջ
...conquistador, in his first letter to the emperor Charles the 5thf, I was presented with gold plate and jewels of such precious workmanship, that unwilling...the greatest beauty, and I doubt if any other prince of earth ever possessed any thing similar to them. That your highness may not imagine I am advancing... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1822 - 544 էջ
...donquisfador, in his first letter tb the empetor Charles the 5tht, *' I Was presented with gold plate and jewels of such precious workmanship, that, unwilling...the greatest beauty, and I doubt if any other prince of earth ever possessed any thing similar to them. That your highness may not imagine I arn advancing... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1859 - 528 էջ
...famous Conquestidor in his first letter to the Emperor, Charles V., " I was presented with gold plate and jewels of such precious workmanship, that unwilling...doubt if any other prince on earth ever possessed anything similar to them. That your Highness may not imagine I am advancing fables, I may add that... | |
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I was presented with gold plate and jewels of such precious workmanship, that unwilling to allow them to be melted, I set apart more than a hundred thousand ducats worth of them to be presented to your imperial highness. These objects were of the greatest... 