History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hermando CortesBickers & Son, 1878 - 713 من الصفحات |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Alvarado Anahuac ancient arms army authority Aztec Bernal Diaz bien brigantines cacique Camargo capital Capitan Carta Casas Castilian causeway cavaliers Chich Cholula Christian chronicler civilization Clavigero commander Conquerors Conquest Conquista Cortés countrymen Crónica Cruz dicha dicho Diego Velasquez Dios emperor enemy Españoles Essai politique estaban expedition fué general's gente gold Gomara gran Guatemozin habia Herrera hieroglyphics Hist honour horse Humboldt hundred Indian Indios Ixtlilxochitl land las Indias latter Lorenzana manera Messico Mexican Mexico monarch Montezuma Narvaez nation natives nature Nezahualcoyotl Nezahualpilli nobles Nueva-España Orbe Novo Oviedo palace person present prince probably quarters received royal Sahagun Sandoval says seemed Señor sent soldiers soon sovereign Spain Spaniards Spanish spirit stone temple tenia teocalli Terc Tezcucan Tezcuco tierra tion Tlacopan Tlascalans Toltec Torquemada Totonacs troops ubi supra Velasquez Vera Cruz warriors
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الصفحة 388 - And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To charge the Volscian home, And wives still pray to Juno For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old.
الصفحة 263 - Amidst a crowd of Indian nobles, preceded by three officers of state, bearing golden wands, they saw the royal palanquin, blazing with burnished gold. It was borne on the shoulders of nobles, and over it a canopy of gaudy feather-work, powdered with jewels, and fringed with silver, was supported by four attendants of the same rank.
الصفحة 121 - With his gayest humor there mingled a settled air of resolution, which made those who approached him feel they must obey; and which infused something like awe into the attachment of his most devoted followers. Such a combination, in which love was tempered by authority, was the one probably best calculated to inspire devotion in the rough and turbulent spirits among whom his lot was to be cast.
الصفحة 540 - The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground...
الصفحة 366 - When Alvarado had concluded his answers to the several interrogatories of Cortes, the brow of the latter darkened, as he said to his lieutenant, "You have done badly. You have been false to your trust. Your conduct has been that of a madman!
الصفحة 381 - After doing all that the courage of despair could enable men to do, resistance grew fainter and fainter on the side of the Aztecs. One after another they had fallen. Two or three priests only survived to be led away in triumph by the victors.
الصفحة 398 - Here they halted ; as they had no means of effecting a passage, smarting all the while under unintermitting volleys from the enemy, who were clustered thick on the waters around this second opening. Sorely distressed, the van-guard sent repeated messages to the rear to demand the portable bridge. At length the last of the army had crossed, and Magarino and his sturdy followers endeavored to raise the ponderous framework.
الصفحة 156 - For the alcaldes he selected Puertocarrero and Montejo, the former cavalier his fast friend, and the latter the friend of Velasquez, and chosen for that very reason ; a stroke of policy which perfectly succeeded. The regidores, alguacil, treasurer, and other functionaries, were then appointed, all of them his personal friends and adherents. They were regularly sworn into office, and the new city received the title of Villa Rica de Vera Cruz, "The Rich Town of the True Cross...
الصفحة 295 - Some of the soldiers among us who had been in many parts of the world, in Constantinople, and all over Italy, and in Rome, said that so large a market place and so full of people, and so well regulated and arranged, they had never beheld before.
الصفحة 451 - The last motive — thus tardily and incidentally expressed — may be thought by some to furnish a better key than either of the preceding to the conduct of the Conquerors. It is, at all events, a specimen of that...