A New History of the Conquest of Mexico: In which Las Casas' Denunciations of the Popular Historians of that War are Fully VindicatedJ. Challen, 1859 - 539 Seiten |
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adoration American ancient antiquity appears Arabs Ashteroth Astarte Aztecs Bernal Diaz bishop Boturnini bronze called Celts Central America centuries character Cholula Christian civilization commerce conquest Copan Cortez cross Cruz Dupaix Egyp Egypt Egyptian emblem empire enemy fables feet FOLSOM's Cortez gold Gomora Greeks Hercules historians holy hundred Ibid idea idolatry Indian inhabitants island king labor laguna land LORD KINGSBOROUGH maguey metal Mexican Mexico Montezuma mountain mural crown nations NOTES TO CHAPTER origin Osiris painted Palenque passed Philistia Phoenician picture writing present priests pyramid Queen of Heaven race Rameses religion religious Roman ruins Saracens savage says sculpture serpent ships side Spain Spaniards Spanish statue stone success table-land Tarshish Tartesse Tartessus temple Tezcuco thousand tion Tlascala tomb tribes Turdetani Turdetanians Tyre Uxmal valley valley of Mexico Vera Cruz vessels village Virgin walls whole worship Yucatan
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 170 - Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
Seite 176 - Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
Seite 176 - The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Seite 168 - Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Seite 226 - And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the seashore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
Seite 171 - The ships were built wholly of oak, and designed to endure any force and violence whatever; the benches which were made of planks a foot in breadth, were fastened by iron spikes of the thickness of a man's thumb; the anchors were secured fast by iron chains instead of cables, and for sails they used skins and thin dressed leather.
Seite 176 - But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
Seite 361 - ... there. The large mount of earth at Cholula, which the Spaniards dignified with the name of temple, still remains, but without any steps by which to ascend, or any facing of stone. It appears now like a natural mount, covered with grass and shrubs, and possibly it was never any thing more.
Seite 376 - He was served in the following manner. Every day as soon as it was light, six hundred nobles and men of rank were in attendance at the palace, who either sat, or walked about the halls and galleries, and passed their time in conversation, but without entering the apartment where his person was. The servants and attendants of these nobles remained in the court-yards, of which there were two or three of great extent, and in the adjoining street, which was also very spacious.
Seite 376 - He possessed out of the city as well as within, numerous villas, each of which had its peculiar sources of amusement, and all were constructed in the best possible manner for the use of a great prince and lord. Within the city his palaces were so wonderful that it is hardly possible to describe their beauty and extent; I can only say that in Spain there is nothing to equal them.
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