"Ponce" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... finding the progress the Gospel had made in that city and its neighbourhood. Over-fatigued by his return journey, he died shortly after his arrival in Seville. God, however, did not leave His Church in Seville without a minister. Constantine Ponce de la Fuente, on the death of Egidius, obtained the post of Canon-Magistrate in the Cathedral of Seville, previously held by him. This made him the principal preacher in the place, and gave him great influence, which he used in spreading the truth of ...
— The Last Look - A Tale of the Spanish Inquisition • W.H.G. Kingston
... had their day, the young must take their turn; There's something always to forget, and something still to learn; But how to tell what's old or young, the tap-root from the sprigs, Since Florida revealed her fount to Ponce de Leon Twiggs? ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... Ponce de Leon (pon'tha da la-on'), sailed with three ships from Porto Rico, in March, 1513, and on the 27th of that month came in sight of the mainland. As the day was Easter Sunday, which the Spaniards call Pascua (pas'-coo-ah) Florida, he called ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... Spaniards had pushed their way across the Caribbean and explored the shores of the gulf, finding at last in Mexico a land of gold. World-worn, disease-racked Ponce de Leon, conqueror and governor of Porto Rico, struggled through the everglades of Florida, seeking the fountain of eternal youth, and getting his death-wound there instead. Ferdinand Magellan, man of iron ...
— American Men of Action • Burton E. Stevenson
... Ponch (Ponce?) he is called in doc. no. 149, and this identifies him with the Captain "Paunche or some such name" whom John Grigg, mariner, of New York, saw at Havana when a prisoner there in 1742-1743, "the same", he says, "who was some time since taken by Captain Norton, and carried into Rhode Island, ...
— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various
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