no es muy oscuro el sótano? - La verdad no penetra en un entendimiento rebelde. ![]() Si, el lugar donde están, sin confundirse, todos los lugares del orbe, vistos desde todos los ángulos. And all the writers, when they would give weight and authority to their opinions, quote the dead and the orators who preach and lecture-are not their mouths filled with words that the dead have spoken? Why, man, our lives follow grooves that the dead have run out with their thumbnails! M. Look you, man, how they work their will upon us! Who have made the laws? The dead! Who have made the customs that we obey and that form and shape our lives? The dead! And the titles to our lands? Have not the dead devised them? If a surveyor runs a line he begins at some corner the dead set up and if one goes to law upon a question the judge looks backward through his books until he finds how the dead have settled it-and he follows that. Includes bibliographical references and index. Millennium : a history of the last thousand years / Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fernández-Armesto, Felipe. Designed by Irving Perkins Associates Manufactured in the United States of America 10 First Charles Scribner's Sons Edition 1995 Published by arrangement with Transworld Publishers Limited SCRIBNER and design are trademarks of Simon & Schuster Inc. ![]() Rockefeller Center 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Copyright © 1995 by Felipe Fernández-Armesto All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. I CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Simon & Schuster Inc. ![]() MILLENNIUM A History of the Last Thousand Years FELIPE Also b y Felipe Fernández-Armesto The Canary Islands After the Conquest Before Columbus The Spanish Armada Barcelona: A Thousand Years of the City's Past Columbus General Editor, The Times Atlas of World Exploration Columbus on Himself Edward Gibbon's Atlas of the World Editor, The Times Guide to the Peoples of Europe Editor, The European Opportunity Editor, The Global Opportunity
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