History of the Conquest of Mexico, Volume 3

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J. B. Lippincott Company, 1873

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Pagina 173 - ... delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter...
Pagina 340 - Plurimum audaciae ad pericula capessenda, plurimum consilii inter ipsa pericula erat. Nullo labore aut corpus fatigari aut animus vinci poterat. Caloris ac frigolis patientia par; cibi potionisque desiderio naturali, non voluptate modus finitius; vigiliarum somnique nee die nee nocte discriminata tempora; id, quod gerendis rebus superesset; quieti datum...
Pagina 173 - The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground...
Pagina 288 - What he suffered from famine, from the hostility of the natives, from the climate, and from hardships of every species, has nothing in history parallel to it, but what occurs in the adventures of the other discoverers and conquerors of the New World. Cortes was employed in this dreadful service above two years ; and though it was not distinguished by any splendid event, he exhibited, during the course of it, greater personal courage, more fortitude of mind, more perseverance and patience, than in...
Pagina 271 - Such was the sad end of Guatemozin, the last emperor of the Aztecs, if we might not rather call him "the last of the Aztecs"; since, from this time, broken in spirit and without a head, the remnant of the nation resigned itself, almost without a struggle, to the stern yoke of its oppressors. Among all the names of barbarian princes, there are few entitled to a higher place on the roll of fame than that of Guatemozin. He was young, and his public career was not long; but it was glorious.
Pagina 254 - Sevilla para que cada navio traiga cierta cantidad de plantas, y que no pueda salir sin ellas, porque será mucha causa para la población y perpetuación de ella.
Pagina 265 - ... sino en canoas, y con pasarla yo en tiempo de seca, desde la entrada hasta la salida de ella, que puede haber veinte leguas, se hicieron...
Pagina 358 - Were the whole of mankind now cut off, with the exception of one family, inhabiting the old or new continent, or Australia, or even some coral islet of the Pacific, we might expect their descendants, though they should never become more enlightened than the South Sea Islanders or the Esquimaux, to spread in the course of ages over the whole earth, diffused partly by the tendency of population to increase...
Pagina 390 - That its mysterious import will ever be deciphered is scarcely to be expected. The language of the race who employed it, the race itself, is unknown. And it is not likely that another Rosetta stone will be found, with its trilingual inscription, to supply the means of comparison, and to guide the American Champollion in the path of discovery.
Pagina 378 - North-western origin were found among the more barbarous tribes, and by the Mexicans were preserved both orally and in their hieroglyphical maps, where the different stages of their migration are carefully noted. But who, at this day, shall read them?

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