The History of America, כרך 2Carey & Lea, 1831 |
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 191 - When the sun shines and is hot upon the surface of the ground, they then make a universal halt, and wait till the cool of the evening. When they are terrified, they march back in a...
עמוד 21 - Spaniards, considered him as a slave who had taken arms against his master, and condemned him to the flames. When Hatuey was fastened to the stake, a franciscan friar labouring to convert him, promised him immediate admittance into the joys of heaven, if he would embrace the christian faith. " Are there any Spaniards," says he, after some pause, " in that region of bliss which you describe ?" " Yes," replied the monk, " but only such as are worthy and good.
עמוד 30 - Christian faith; that no further scruple ought to be entertained concerning the lawfulness of the repartimientos, as the king and council were willing to take the charge of that upon their own consciences; and that therefore the Dominicans, and monks of other religious orders, should abstain for the future from those invectives which, from an excess of charitable but ill-informed zeal, they had uttered against the practice.
עמוד 203 - The feathers on its wings and tail are black; but those on its body, and under its wings, are of a greenish brown, with a fine red cast or gloss, which no silk or velyet can imitate.
עמוד 18 - ... sought after, as the luxury of Asia had been introduced into Europe by two ways diametrically opposite ; that of Constantinople, where the Paleologi wore garments covered with strings of pearls; and that of Grenada, the residence of the Moorish kings, who displayed at their court all the luxury of the East. The pearls of the East Indies were preferred to those of the West; but the number of the latter which circulated in commerce was not less considerable in the times which immediately followed...
עמוד 30 - God and of man ; that unless they were subjected to the dominion of the Spaniards, and compelled to reside under their inspection, it would be impossible to reclaim them from idolatry, or to instruct them in the principles of the Christian faith ; that no...
עמוד 191 - When the sun shines, and is hot upon the surface of the ground, they make a universal halt, and wait till the cool of the evening. When they are terrified, they march back, in a confused disorderly manner, holding up their nippers, with which they sometimes tear off a piece of the skin> and then leave the weapon where they inflicted the wound.
עמוד 190 - May to begin their expedition ; and then sally out by thousands from the stumps of hollow trees, from the clefts of rocks, and from the holes which they dig for themselves ..:• * Brown's Jamaica, p. 423. under the surface of the earth. At that time the...
עמוד 190 - These animals live not only in a kind of orderly society in their retreats in the mountains, but regularly once a year march down to the sea-side in a body of some millions at a time. As they multiply in great numbers, they choose the months of April or May to begin their expedition ; and then sally out...
עמוד 146 - ... towards improvement. Even the most cultivated nations of America were strangers to many of those simple inventions which were almost coeval with society in other parts of the world, and were known in the earliest periods of civil life with which we have any acquaintance.