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 من الصفحات |
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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 painted Palenque passed Philistia Phoenician picture writing present priests pyramid Queen of Heaven race Rameses religion religious rock 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
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 137 - Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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 or 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 equal to them. There was one palace somewhat inferior to the rest, attached to which was a beautiful garden, with balconies extending over...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 368 - ... 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...
الصفحة 376 - Spain there is nothing equal to them. There was one palace somewhat inferior to the rest, attached to which was a beautiful garden with balconies extending over it, supported by marble columns, and having a floor formed of jasper elegantly inlaid. There were apartments in this palace sufficient to lodge two princes of the highest rank with their retinues. There were likewise belonging to it ten pools of water, in which were kept the different species of water birds found in this country, of which...