Terry's Mexico: Handbook for TravellersSonora News Company, 1909 - 595 Seiten |
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adorned altar American Antonio Aztec beautiful bull C.de called Capilla capital carved Casas Cathedral celebrated centre chapel Chapultepec Chihuahua Church of San Churrigueresque color comp Conquest Cortés Cruz decorated district dome entrance erected façade facing fare flanked flowers gold Government Guadalajara Guadalupe Guanajuato Guaymas Hernan Cortés Hidalgo hills Hotel huge Indian interior Iturbide Jardin José Juarez kilom known lake land María Maximilian Mexican Mexico City Miguel miles mines Montezuma mountains National native Oaxaca ornaments painter paintings Palacio Pedro pesos Plaza Mayor Porfirio Diaz possess Puebla pulque Querétaro railway reached region Republic rich San Francisco San Juan San Luis Potosí Santa Santo Señora side silver Sonora Spain Spaniards Spanish splendid station stone street Tarascan Tenochtitlán tion town train traveller usually Valley of Mexico Vera Cruz viâ Viceroy Virgin walls Zacatecas
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Seite 364 - And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.
Seite ccviii - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been deemed proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.
Seite 130 - COLD eyelids that hide like a jewel Hard eyes that grow soft for an hour ; The heavy white limbs, and the cruel Red mouth like a venomous flower ; When these are gone by with their glories, What shall rest of thee then, what remain, O mystic and sombre Dolores, Our Lady of Pain...
Seite 578 - Well would it have been for Columbus had he followed their advice. Within a day or two he would have arrived at Yucatan ; the discovery of Mexico and the other opulent countries of New Spain would have necessarily followed ; the Southern Ocean would have been disclosed to him, and a succession of splendid discoveries would have shed fresh glory on his declining age, instead of its sinking amidst gloom, neglect, and disappointment.
Seite 302 - ... a. volcanic substance, hard as flint,— and, inserting his hand in the wound, tore out the palpitating heart. The minister of death, first holding this up towards the sun, an object of worship throughout Anahuac, cast it at the feet of the deity to whom the temple was devoted, while the multitudes below prostrated themselves in humble adoration. The tragic story of this prisoner was expounded by the priests as the type of human destiny, which, brilliant in its commencement, too often closes...
Seite cxxv - The judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court of Justice and the District and Circuit Courts. The Government of the States is divided into the same branches as the General Government. The States are divided politically, as a rule, into districts governed by a jefe politico, or a prefect, who is responsible to the governor — gobernador.
Seite 520 - Air/ with ebon features, unlike the fair complexion which he bore upon earth, wearing a mitre on his head waving with plumes of fire, with a resplendent collar of gold round his neck, pendants of mosaic turquoise in his ears, a jewelled sceptre in one hand, and a shield curiously painted, the emblem of his rule over the winds, in the other.
Seite clxxxiv - ... vibrated through every corner of the capital. The Spaniards saw that no time was to be lost. The bridge was brought forward and fitted with all possible expedition. ;Sandoval was the first to try its strength, and, riding across, was followed by his little body of chivalry, his infantry, and the Tlascalan allies who formed the first division of the army.
Seite clxiv - ... and sought a precarious subsistence from fishing, and from the wild fowl which frequented the waters, as well as from the cultivation of such simple vegetables as they could raise on their floating gardens. The place was called Tenochtitlan, in token of its miraculous origin, though only known to Europeans by its other name of Mexico, derived from their war-god, Mexitli.
Seite clxxx - ... battle-field, engaged in mortal combat in presence of the whole city, as well as of the troops in the court-yard, who paused, as if by mutual consent, from their own hostilities, gazing in silent expectation on the issue of those above. The area, though somewhat smaller than the base of the teocalli, was large enough to afford a fair field of fight for a thousand combatants.