History of Central America ..., المجلد 6History Company, 1886 |
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الصفحة 260 - Castillians, giving to one man fifty, to another a hundred; with a deed that ran thus: 'to you, such a one, is given an encomienda of so many Indians, with such a Cacique, and you are to teach them the things of our Holy Catholic Faith'.
الصفحة 117 - But now that those parts have been more extensively examined, and another fourth part has been discovered by Americus (as will be seen in the sequel), I do not see why we should rightly refuse to name it America, namely, the land of Americus or America, after its discoverer, Americus, a man of sagacious mind, since both Europe and Asia took their names from women.
الصفحة 286 - AND the fourth part of the world having been discovered by Americus, it may be called Amerige ; that is, the land of Americus or America.
الصفحة 364 - I take real, and corporal, and actual possession of these seas, and lands, and coasts, and ports, and islands of the south, and all thereunto annexed...
الصفحة 24 - There were before and behind him two hundred men-at-arms, each having in his hand a leathern mallet, with which they struck the Jews in such wise as it was a pleasure to see. On the morrow, he returned to his palace, accompanied by the cardinals dressed in...
الصفحة 256 - Indies, the encomienda was the patronage conferred by royal favor over a portion of the natives concentrated in settlements near those of the Spaniards; the obligation to instruct them in the Christian religion and the elements of civilized life, and to defend them in their persons and property; coupled with the right to demand tribute or labor in return for these privileges.
الصفحة 269 - ... steel-clad tormentors. In this work he was ardent, ofttimes imprudent, always eloquent and truthful, and as impudently bold and brazen as any cavalier among them all. Nor was he by any means a discontented man. He sought nothing for himself; he had nothing that man could take from him except life, upon which he set no value, or except some of its comforts, which were too poor at best to trouble himself about. His cause, which was the right, gave breadth and volume to his boldness, beside which...
الصفحة 360 - With throbbing heart he mounted the topmost eminence which crowned these sea-dividing hills. Then, as in the lifting of a veil, a scene of primeval splendor burst on his enraptured gaze, such as might fill with joy an archangel sent to explore a new creation. There it lay, that boundless unknown sea, spread out before him, far as the eye could reach, in calm, majestic beauty, glittering like liquid crystal in the morning sun. Beneath his feet, in furrowed prospect, were terraces of living green,...
الصفحة 323 - Most powerful sire," he said, " there is one great favor that I pray your royal highness to do me, since it is of great importance to your service. It is for your royal highness to issue an order that no bachiller of laws, or of anything unless it be of medicine, shall come to these parts of Tierra Firme, under a heavy penalty that your highness shall fix ; because no bachiller ever comes hither who is not a devil, and they all live like devils, and not only are they themselves bad, but they make...
الصفحة 381 - He was large of frame, pronounced in mind and temper, and coarse-grained throughout, the grizzled hair surrounding his dark features like the selfish and unholy nature that environed his swarthy soul. Whence it would appear that he was elderly for so rude a mission, which was true; but being an officer in good repute, well born and highly connected,1 and with no lack of fire and stubbornness remaining, his age was not reckoned so much against him.