The History of Mexico, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1807 - 463 pages |
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The History of Mexico: Collected from Spanish and Mexican ..., Volume 2 Francesco Saverio Clavigero No preview available - 1817 |
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Page 347 - I swear to your Majesties, that there is not a better people in the world than these ; more affectionate, affable, or mild. They love their neighbors as themselves and they always speak smilingly.
Page 219 - Toltecas fix such earthquakes in the year I Tecpatl ; but as we know not to what century that belonged, we can form no conjecture of the time that great calamity happened. If a great earthquake...
Page 353 - After such long experience and study of them, from which we imagine ourselves enabled to decide without danger of erring, we declare to M. de Paw, and to all Europe, that the mental qualities of the Americans are not the least inferior to those (d) Torquemada, lib.
Page 260 - ... them with its breath, and devour them at once entirely :" from whence it is evident, that this very ancient fable has been common to both continents. Further, it may be allied, In what country of America could M.
Page 348 - They love their neighbors as themselves ; their language is the sweetest, the softest, and the most cheerful, for they always speak smiling ; and although they go naked, let your majesties believe me, their customs are very becoming. And their king, who is served with great majesty, has such engaging manners that it gives great pleasure to see him ; and also to consider the great retentive faculty of that people, and their desire of knowledge, which incites them to ask the causes and effects of things.
Page 258 - Pliny, and ether authors. The frogs depopulated one place in Gaul, and the locufts another in Africa. One of the Cyclades was depopulated by mice ; Amiclas, near to Taracina, by ferpents ; another place, near to Ethiopia, by fcorpions and poifonous ants ; and another by fcolopendras ; and not fo...
Page 256 - ... as M. de Paw would have it, we ought in like manner to argue the malignity of the climate of Europe from the fmaller fize and lefs fiercenefs of its animals, compared with thofe of Africa. If a philoftipher of the Country of Guinea mould undertake a work in imitation of M. de Paw, with this title,' Rechenlcs Philofofbijxes fur let Eunpeens, he rright avail himfelf of the fame argument which M.
Page 214 - Spaniards should spread into those parts, will throw great light on the ancient history of Mexico. Boturini says, that in the ancient paintings of the Toltecas, was represented the migration of their ancestors through Asia and the northern countries of America, until they established themselves in the country of Tollan, and even...
Page 190 - Holguin eagerly seized his prize, and the king of Mexico advancing towards the Spaniards, said to the captain, ' I am your prisoner : I have no favor to ask, but that you will show the queen, my wife and her attendants, the respect due to their sex and rank.