Mexico and Its Religion: With Incidents of Travel in that Country During Parts of Years 1851-52-53-54Harper & Brothers, 1855 - 406 páginas |
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... whom , for the kind attention that I have upon all occasions re- ceived from them , I heartily return my most sincere thanks . Rochester , Sebtember 1st , 1855 . R. A. WILSON . CONTENT S. CHAPTER I. Arrival at Vera Cruz . -
... whom , for the kind attention that I have upon all occasions re- ceived from them , I heartily return my most sincere thanks . Rochester , Sebtember 1st , 1855 . R. A. WILSON . CONTENT S. CHAPTER I. Arrival at Vera Cruz . -
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... Vera Cruz . - Its appearance from the Steamer . - Getting Ashore . Within the City . - Throwing Stones at an Image . - An- tiquity of Vera Cruz . - Its Commerce . - The great Norther of 1852 . --A little Steamer rides out the Tempest ...
... Vera Cruz . - Its appearance from the Steamer . - Getting Ashore . Within the City . - Throwing Stones at an Image . - An- tiquity of Vera Cruz . - Its Commerce . - The great Norther of 1852 . --A little Steamer rides out the Tempest ...
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... Vera Cruz . - Its appearance from the Steamer . - Getting Ashore . Within the City . - Throwing Stones at an Image . - An- tiquity of Vera Cruz . - Its Commerce . - The great Norther of 1852 . -A little Steamer rides out the Tempest ...
... Vera Cruz . - Its appearance from the Steamer . - Getting Ashore . Within the City . - Throwing Stones at an Image . - An- tiquity of Vera Cruz . - Its Commerce . - The great Norther of 1852 . -A little Steamer rides out the Tempest ...
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... their heads and chests as to include in its narrow folds their arms , and all above the waist except the face . Priests appear in black gowns , and fur hats with such VERA CRUZ . ་ བཀ 17 VERA CRUZ . ample 16 MEXICO AND ITS RELIGION .
... their heads and chests as to include in its narrow folds their arms , and all above the waist except the face . Priests appear in black gowns , and fur hats with such VERA CRUZ . ་ བཀ 17 VERA CRUZ . ample 16 MEXICO AND ITS RELIGION .
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... VERA CRUZ . ་ བཀ 17 VERA CRUZ . ample brims that they lap and are fastened together upon the top of their heads . The armed patrol , in dirty cotton uniforms , and soldiers in broadcloth , are returning from morning muster ; for in this ...
... VERA CRUZ . ་ བཀ 17 VERA CRUZ . ample brims that they lap and are fastened together upon the top of their heads . The armed patrol , in dirty cotton uniforms , and soldiers in broadcloth , are returning from morning muster ; for in this ...
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abundant Acapulco American appearance army auto da fe Aztecs beautiful Bernal Diaz bishop California called canal carried Catholic causeway Chalco CHAPTER chinampas Cholula Church city of Mexico clergy conquest convent Cortéz Cruz dollars feet flowers friars garden gold Guadalupe Guanajuato hand holy horses hundred immense Indians inhabitants Inquisition insurrection Iturbide Jalapa king labor Lady land lives look maguey mass metals Mexican mineral mines monks mountain nation never night palace party passed pearls Plaza plunder poor population present priests prison Puebla pulque race Real del Monte religious republic rich road ruins saints Santa Anna shaft side silver Sonora soon Spain Spaniards Spanish stone story streets table-land Tezcuco thing Thomas Gage tion Tlascala Toltecs town valley valley of Mexico Vera Cruz Vice-king village Virgin walls wealth whole women worship
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Página 52 - Gul in her bloom; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute: Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Página 393 - There was only one mineral district actually in work at the close of the last century and the beginning of the present...
Página 337 - Babylon;" and compared their miserable fate with hers, the Bride of Christ, who, after suffering a few privations here during a short term of years, should be received at once into a kingdom of glory. The whole discourse was well calculated to rally her fainting spirits, if fainting they were, and to inspire us with a great disgust for ourselves. When the sermon was concluded, the music again struck up — the heroine of the day came forward, and stood before the grating to take her last look of...
Página 336 - ... they had given her, and had then, according to custom, been paraded through the town in all her finery. And now her last hour was at hand. When I came in she rose and embraced me with as much cordiality as if we had known each other for years. Beside her sat the Madrina, also in white satin and jewels; all the relations being likewise decked out in their finest array. The nun kept laughing every now and then in the most unnatural and hysterical manner, as I thought, apparently to impress us with...
Página 337 - She little thought what a fatal gift it would prove to her. The most cruel part of all was that, wishing to display her fine voice to the public, they made her sing a hymn alone, on her knees, her arms extended in the form of a cross, before all the immense crowd: " Ancilla Christi sum,"
Página 154 - ... it was a most credible report that in Mexico in my time there were above fifteen thousand coaches. It is a by-word that at Mexico four things are fair; that is to say, the women, the apparel, the horses, and the streets. But to this I may add the beauty of some of the coaches of the gentry, which do exceed in cost the best of the Court of Madrid and other parts of Christendom, for...
Página 248 - ... there are numerous wealthy citizens who also possess fine houses. All these persons, in addition to the large and spacious apartments for ordinary purposes, have others, both upper and lower, that contain conservatories of flowers. Along one of...
Página 249 - 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.
Página 339 - S o, that is to say, a place to kneel on. A great bustle and much preparation seemed to be going on within the convent, and veiled figures were flitting about, whispering, arranging, etc.
Página 95 - ... stone church, and surmounted by a tall steeple. It was the most attractive object in the plain ; it had such a look of uncultivated nature in the midst of grain fields. It would have lost half its attractiveness had it been the stiff and clumsy thing which the picture represents it to be. I had admired it in pictures from my childhood, for what it was not ; but I now admired it for what it really was : the finest Indian mound on this continent."1 Such is the conclusion arrived at by Mr. Robert...