The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1817 |
Dall'interno del libro
Risultati 1-5 di 24
Pagina 132
... Mexican ca- lender , that their idols were so numerous , that each month and day had its peculiar divinity . Might not the Mexicans with propriety have asked the Spaniards if they themselves were less idolatrous ? + Bernal Diaz in his ...
... Mexican ca- lender , that their idols were so numerous , that each month and day had its peculiar divinity . Might not the Mexicans with propriety have asked the Spaniards if they themselves were less idolatrous ? + Bernal Diaz in his ...
Pagina 133
... Mexicans for the gold dust which they paid in tribute to their monarchs , were goose quills , the barrels of which were filled with that substance : and the merchant who dealt in gold had the metal in grains as it came from the mines ...
... Mexicans for the gold dust which they paid in tribute to their monarchs , were goose quills , the barrels of which were filled with that substance : and the merchant who dealt in gold had the metal in grains as it came from the mines ...
Pagina 143
... Mexicans , who had collected an army of fifty thousand men , at a league and a half from Cho- lula , and by menaces obliged them to join in the execution of their plot . They acknowledged that they had been misled , but promised that if ...
... Mexicans , who had collected an army of fifty thousand men , at a league and a half from Cho- lula , and by menaces obliged them to join in the execution of their plot . They acknowledged that they had been misled , but promised that if ...
Pagina 146
... Mexicans wished to conduct us was extremely bad . On receiving this information the Spaniards followed the road to the height of land , which it crossed , and discovered from the loftiest point of this height the plain of Chulua , the ...
... Mexicans wished to conduct us was extremely bad . On receiving this information the Spaniards followed the road to the height of land , which it crossed , and discovered from the loftiest point of this height the plain of Chulua , the ...
Pagina 191
... the edge of a large march , and partly on a piece of ground adjoining a range of very steep and rocky mountains , where we were very well ac- commodated . The Mexicans were desirous of engaging us in LETTER FROM CORTEZ . 191.
... the edge of a large march , and partly on a piece of ground adjoining a range of very steep and rocky mountains , where we were very well ac- commodated . The Mexicans were desirous of engaging us in LETTER FROM CORTEZ . 191.
Altre edizioni - Visualizza tutto
Parole e frasi comuni
American Andromache appears army banks beautiful Bible boat boiler Brevets caciques called captain character chinampas Cholula Colonel command Cottagers of Glenburnie Covenanters dollars per month earth enemy engine English Evandale eyes favour feel French gentlemen give Granville Sharp hand heart heaven honour horses hundred inhabitants John July July 14 June 14 king labour land leagues letters Lieutenants light Lord Maj bvt manner master means ment Mexico miles mind mineralogy Montezuma nature never observed officers Old Mortality opinion Pernambuco persons Phillips political PORT FOLIO present principles province Pyrrhus racter received Recife rendered residence respect river says sent slaves soon spirit thee thing thou thousand tion town translation United whole word writer Yellow Fever