 With an enthusiasm worthy of herself, and of the cause, Isabella exclaimed, " I undertake the enterprise for my own crown of Castile, and will pledge my jewels to raise the necessary funds.  Works - Page 114by Washington Irving - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 502 pages
...How could she draw on an exhausted treasury for a measure to which the King was adverse ? St Angel watched this suspense with trembling anxiety. The...will pledge my jewels to raise the necessary funds, i This was the proudest moment in the life of Isabella; it stamped her renown for ever as the patroness... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1829 - 346 pages
...the war. Her suspense was but momentary. With an enthusiasm worthy of herself and of the cause, she exclaimed, " I undertake the enterprise for my own crown of Castile, and will rjledge my jewels to raise the necessary funds." This was the proudest moment in the life of Isabella... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 608 pages
...time, the queen hesitated, but, at length, with an enthusiasm worthy of herself, and of the cause, exclaimed, " I undertake the enterprise, for my own crown of Castile ; and will pledge my private jewels to raise the necessary funds." A messenger was now immediately dispatched, to recall... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 600 pages
...time, the queen hesitated, but, at length, with an enthusiasm worth* of herself, and of the cause, exclaimed, " I undertake the enterprise, for my own crown of Castile ; and will ptedge my private jewels to raise the necessary funds." A messenger was now immediately dispatched,... | |
 | Washington Irving - America - 1835 - 436 pages
...How could she draw on an exhausted treasury for a measure to which the king was adverse! St. Angel watched this suspense with trembling anxiety. The...enterprise for my own crown of Castile, and will pledge my private , % jewels to raise the necessary funds." This was the proudest moment in the life of Isabella;... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 860 pages
...But the queen's enthusiasm was now roused, and she exclaimed, ' I undertake this enterprise for rny own crown of Castile, and will pledge my jewels to raise the necessary funds.' St Angel ofl'ered to advance the money, but this was not required, and the funds really came from the... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 pages
...calculating husband looks coldly on the scheme, — and then, after a moment's suspense, she exclaims. " I undertake the enterprise for my own crown of Castile,...will pledge my jewels to raise the necessary funds."' ;• /•[ r1 luou i< /,/. ' r*olll'> A few months afterwards, in .the month of August, 1492, there,... | |
 | Narratives - Explorers - 1848 - 228 pages
...condition of the treasury. But the queen's enthusiasm was now roused, and she exclaimed, ' I undertake this enterprise for my own crown of Castile, and will pledge my jewels to raise the necessary funds.' St Angel offered to advance the money, but this was not required, and the funds really came from the... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1850 - 230 pages
...then just brought to a favourable conclusion, was averse to entering on the proposed adventure — she exclaimed, " I undertake the enterprise for my own...pledge my jewels to raise the necessary funds." This sacrifice was not, however, necessary. For his undertaking Columbus required, in the first place, only... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 454 pages
...How could she draw on an exhausted treasury for a measure to which the king was adverse ! St. Angel watched this suspense with trembling anxiety. The...will pledge my jewels to raise the necessary funds." Thia was the proudest moment in the life of Isabella ; it stamped her renown for ever as the patroness... | |
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