The History of Ancient Mexico: From the Foundation of that Empire to Its Destruction by the Spaniards ...The author, 1832 - Indians of Mexico |
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Common terms and phrases
Acolhuacan Acolhuas adorned afterwards Ahuitzotl altar Anahuac ancient arms arts Azcapozalco beautiful birds brother Cacamatzin called capital celebrated Chalchese Chalco Chechemecas chief Chimalpopoca Cholula civil Clavigero colour commenced conquest Cordillera Cortes court crown cycle dance death deity earth empire father feet festival flowers four fruit gods gold gulph of Mexico head honour Huexotzinco Huitzilihuitl Huitzilopochtli Humboldt hundred idols Indians inhabitants Itzcoatl itzli king of Mexico kingdom lake latter maize Maxtlaton Mexi Mexican empire Mexicans Michuacan miles Mixtecas monarch Montezuma month Moquihuix mountains nations neighbouring Nezahualcojotl Nezahualpilli nobles occasion offered Otomies paintings palace plant preserved priests prince principal prisoners province pulque punished Quetzalcoatl reign royal sacrifice Spain Spaniards Spanish species stone Techotlala temple Teotihuacan Tepanecan Tezcatlipoca Tezcuco Tezozomoc tezuma thousand throne tion Tizoc Tlacopan Tlaloc Tlascalans Tlatelolco Tochtli Toltecas tree tribes Vale of Mexico whilst wood worship Xolotl
Popular passages
Page 63 - Grenada, are agriculturists, who can only be compared with the class of European peasantry. We can have no doubt, then, that the absence of natural deformities among them is the effect of their mode of life, and of the constitution peculiar to their race. All...
Page 64 - In fact, osteology teaches us that the cranium of the American differs essentially from that of the Mongol: the former exhibits a facial line, more inclined, though straighter, than that of the negro ; and there is no race on the globe in which the frontal bone is more depressed backwards, or which has a less projecting forehead*.
Page 291 - Scorn not him whom you see fall into some folly or transgression, nor make him reproaches ; but restrain thyself, and beware lest thou fall into the same error which offends thee in another. Go not where thou art not called, nor interfere in that which does not concern thee.
Page 60 - The Indians of New Spain bear a general resemblance to those who inhabit Canada, Florida, Peru and Brazil. They have the same swarthy and copper...
Page 292 - When thou attest at table with them, do not eat or drink before them, but attend to them in a becoming manner, that thou mayest merit their favour. When they give thee any thing, accept it with tokens of gratitude; if the present is great, do not become vain of it.
Page 294 - Be orderly and take pains to manage the economy or thy house. Give water to thy husband for his hands, and make bread for thy family. Wherever thou goest, go with modesty and composure, without hurrying thy steps, or laughing with those whom thou meetest, neither fixing thy looks upon them nor casting thy eyes thoughtlessly, first to one side and then to another, that thy reputation may not be sullied; but give a courteous answer to those who salute and put any question to thee. ' Employ thyself...
Page 292 - ... if the present is great, do not become vain or fond of it. If the gift is small do not despise it, nor be provoked, nor occasion displeasure to them who favour thee. If thou becomest rich, do not grow insolent, nor scorn the poor ; for those very gods who deny riches to others in order to give them to thee, offended by thy pride, will take them from thee again to give to others. Support thyself by thy own labours ; for then thy food will be sweeter.
Page 149 - The palace of his usual residence was a vast edifice of stone and lime, which had twenty doors to the public squares and streets ; three great courts, in one of which was a beautiful fountain ; several halls, and more than a hundred chambers. Some of the apartments had walls of marble and other valuable kinds of stone. The beams were of cedar, cypress, and other excellent woods, well finished and carved.
Page 175 - Before the great inundation, which took place four thousand eight hundred years after the creation of the World, the country of Anahuac was inhabited by giants (tzocuillixeque).
Page 20 - Mexico, who have not only destroyed without planting, but in draining great tracts of land have occasioned another more important evil. Muriate of soda and lime, nitrate of potash, and other saline substances, cover the surface of the soil, and spread with a rapidity very difficult to be explained. Through this abundance of salt, and these efflorescences, hostile to cultivation, the table-land of Mexico bears a great resemblance in many places to Thibet and the saline steppes of central Asia. In...