Literally rendered, “The most illustrious Genoese hero, Christopher Columbus, by himself, through remarkable nautical science, a new world having been discovered and subjected to the kings of Castile and Leon,” etc.
See Masse, L’Isle de Cuba et La Havane, (Paris, 1825,) p. 201.
[108] Discours sur les Progrès successifs de l’Esprit Humain: Œuvres, éd. Daire, (Paris, 1844,) Tom. II. p. 602.
[109] Coxe, Memoirs of the Kings of Spain of the House of Bourbon, Ch. LXXIII.
[110] Letter to Robert R. Livingston, December 14, 1782: Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, ed. Sparks, Vol. VII. p. 4.
[111] Speech in Executive Session of the Senate on the Johnson-Clarendon Treaty, April 13, 1869: Ante, pp. 53, seqq.
[112] Journals of Congress, October 26, 1774; May 29, 1775; January 24, February 15, March 20, 1776. American Archives, 4th Ser., Vol. I. coll. 930-4; II. 1838-9; IV. 1653, 1672; V. 411-13, 1643-5.
[113] “I, fili mi, ut videas quantulâ sapientiâ regatur mundus.”—Oxenstiern, to his son, “as he was departing to assist at the congress of statesmen.” (Brougham, Speech in the House of Lords, January 18, 1838: Hansard, 3d Ser., Vol. XL. col. 207.) “The congress of statesmen” alluded to was that convened in 1648 for the negotiation of the Treaty of Westphalia, which terminated the Thirty Years’ War.—It may be remarked that other authorities represent the occasion of this famous saying to have been a letter from the young envoy to his father, while in attendance at the congress, expressing a sense of need of the most mature wisdom for a mission so important and difficult,—the old Chancellor replying in terms variously cited thus:—“Mi fili, parvo mundus regitur intellectu”;—“Nescis, mi fili, quantillâ prudentiâ homines regantur”;—“An nescis, mi fili, quantillâ prudentiâ regatur orbis?”—See Harte, History of Gustavus Adolphus, (London, 1807,) Vol. II. p. 142; Biographie Universelle, (Michaud, Paris, 1822,) art. Oxenstierna, Axel; Boiteau, Les Reines du Nord, in Le Magasin de Librairie, (Charpentier, Paris, 1858,) Tom. I. p. 436.
[114] Discorsi, Lib. I. capp. 2, 9.
[115] McPherson’s History of the United States during the Great Rebellion, p. 606.