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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... took good care that nothing should be printed against the fair fame of so good a Christian as Cortéz , who had painted upon his banner an image of the Immaculate Virgin , and had be- stowed upon her a large portion of his robbery ; who ...
... took good care that nothing should be printed against the fair fame of so good a Christian as Cortéz , who had painted upon his banner an image of the Immaculate Virgin , and had be- stowed upon her a large portion of his robbery ; who ...
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... took Sanctuary . - Refused to leave the Altar . - The Arrest at the Altar .... CHAPTER XXII . 229 The old Indian City of Mexico . - The Mosques . - Probable Extent of Civilization . - Aztecs acquired Arts of the Toltecs . - Toltec ...
... took Sanctuary . - Refused to leave the Altar . - The Arrest at the Altar .... CHAPTER XXII . 229 The old Indian City of Mexico . - The Mosques . - Probable Extent of Civilization . - Aztecs acquired Arts of the Toltecs . - Toltec ...
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... took the guitar and sung a sonnet which he had composed to a certain Amaryllis . This was a new scandal to our newly - ar- rived religious , which afflicted some of them to see such libertinage in a prelate , who ought , on the contrary ...
... took the guitar and sung a sonnet which he had composed to a certain Amaryllis . This was a new scandal to our newly - ar- rived religious , which afflicted some of them to see such libertinage in a prelate , who ought , on the contrary ...
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... took our places in the coach , and when the hostler let slip the rope that held the heads of the leaders , our eight wild horses dashed off at a furious rate over a roughly paved road , to the no small dis- turbance of the reflections ...
... took our places in the coach , and when the hostler let slip the rope that held the heads of the leaders , our eight wild horses dashed off at a furious rate over a roughly paved road , to the no small dis- turbance of the reflections ...
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... took the thing coolly , for I cared little for the result ; and had I cared , there was no helping it now . So I patiently waited their arrival . To the questions of the only one who could talk English I answered briefly , as I sup ...
... took the thing coolly , for I cared little for the result ; and had I cared , there was no helping it now . So I patiently waited their arrival . To the questions of the only one who could talk English I answered briefly , as I sup ...
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abundant Acapulco American appearance army Aztecs beautiful Bernal Diaz bishop built California called canals carried Catholic causeway Chalco CHAPTER chinampas Cholula Church city of Mexico conquest convent Cortéz court Cruz dollars emperor feet floating friars garden gold Guadalupe Guanajuato hand holy horse hundred immense Indians inhabitants Inquisition Jalapa king labor Lady laguna lake land lives look maguey mass metals Mexican mineral mines monks Montezuma mountain nation never night palace party passed pearls Plaza ponds poor population present President of Mexico priests Protestantism Puebla pulque race Real del Monte republic rich road saint Santa Anna side silver Sonora soon Spain Spaniards Spanish spot stone story streets Tezcuco thing Thomas Gage tion Tlascala Toltecs town valley valley of Mexico Vera Cruz vice-king village Virgin 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...