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... Hernando Cortes V. History of the Conquest of Peru , Chili , & c . by Pizarro ; with an Account of the Manners and Cus toms of the Mexicans and Peru- vians Page 42 67 118 149 VI Page CHAP . VI . View of the other Spanish.
... Hernando Cortes V. History of the Conquest of Peru , Chili , & c . by Pizarro ; with an Account of the Manners and Cus toms of the Mexicans and Peru- vians Page 42 67 118 149 VI Page CHAP . VI . View of the other Spanish.
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... Mexicans and Peruvians . Their bodily Constitution . The Qualities of their Minds . Their domestic State . Their ... Mexican Gulf , and had found that it stretched , without interruption , through this vast portion of the globe . They ...
... Mexicans and Peruvians . Their bodily Constitution . The Qualities of their Minds . Their domestic State . Their ... Mexican Gulf , and had found that it stretched , without interruption , through this vast portion of the globe . They ...
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... Mexicans concerning their own origin . According to them their ancestors came from a remote country , situated to the north - west of Mexico . They point out the various stations as they advanced from this into the inferior pro- vinces ...
... Mexicans concerning their own origin . According to them their ancestors came from a remote country , situated to the north - west of Mexico . They point out the various stations as they advanced from this into the inferior pro- vinces ...
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... Mexicans . Grandeur of the City . Cortes makes Montezuma Prisoner . Cruel Death of his Son . Acknowledges himself Vassal of the King of Castile . Attempts to con- vert him to Christianity . Orders Cortes to de- , part . Narvaez sent to ...
... Mexicans . Grandeur of the City . Cortes makes Montezuma Prisoner . Cruel Death of his Son . Acknowledges himself Vassal of the King of Castile . Attempts to con- vert him to Christianity . Orders Cortes to de- , part . Narvaez sent to ...
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... Mexican province , and having been sold as a slave in the early part of her life , fell into the hands of the Tabascans , and had resided long enough among them to acquire their language , without losing the use of her own . From her ...
... Mexican province , and having been sold as a slave in the early part of her life , fell into the hands of the Tabascans , and had resided long enough among them to acquire their language , without losing the use of her own . From her ...
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Page 280 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
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Page 240 - HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.
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Page 282 - Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Page 14 - ... which had created him so much unnecessary disquiet, and had so often obstructed the prosecution of his well-concerted plan; and passing, in the warmth of their admiration, from one extreme to another, they now pronounced the man, whom they had so lately reviled and threatened, to be a person inspired by heaven with sagacity and fortitude more than human, in order to accomplish a design so far beyond the ideas and conception of all former ages.
Page 218 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 256 - In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Page 254 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large, for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.