History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés, Volume 3J.B. Lippincott & Company, 1882 - Mexico |
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Page 159 - ... delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter...
Page 320 - Plurimum audaciae ad pericula capessenda, plurimum consilii inter ipsa pericula erat. Nullo labore aut corpus fatigari aut animus vinci poterat. Caloris ac frigoris patientia par ; cibi potionisque desiderio 10 natural!, non voluptate modus finitus ; vigiliarum somnique nee die nee nocte discriminata tempora; id quod gerendis rebus superesset quieti datum...
Page 159 - The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground...
Page 435 - Sacra Cesárea Católica Majestad. =Pensé que haber trabajado en la juventud, me aprovechara para que en la vejez tuviera descanso, y así ha cuarenta años que me he ocupado en no dormir , mal comer , y á las veces ni bien ni mal, traer las armas á cuestas, poner la persona en peligros, gastar mi hacienda...
Page 173 - Cortes came forward with a dignified and studied courtesy to receive him. The Aztec monarch probably knew the person of his conqueror, for he first broke silence by saying, "I have done all that I could to defend myself and my people. I am now reduced to this state. You will deal with me, Malinche, as you list.
Page 381 - My beloved daughter, very dear little dove, you have already heard and attended to the words which your father has told you. They are precious words, and such as are rarely spoken or listened to, and which have proceeded from the bowels and heart in which they were treasured up; and your beloved father well knows that you are his daughter, begotten of him, are his blood, and his flesh ; and God our Lord knows that it is so. Although you are a woman, and are the image of your father, what more can...
Page 392 - Tras de este jardín se seguían los baños hechos y labrados de peña viva, que con dividirse en dos baños eran de una pieza; y por aquí se bajaba...
Page 119 - ... side of which stood Cortes and his companions, horror-struck at the sight of the approaching ruin. The foremost files soon plunged into the gulf, treading one another under the flood, some striving ineffectually to swim, others, with more success, to clamber over the heaps of their suffocated comrades. Many, as they attempted to scale the opposite sides of the slippery dike, fell into the water, or were hurried off by the warriors in...
Page 168 - Cuauht6moc was ready to die where he was, but would hold no interview with the Spanish commander; adding, in a tone of resignation, "it is for you to work your pleasure." "Go, then," replied the stern Conqueror, "and prepare your countrymen for death. Their hour is come.
Page 117 - ... y hallé que habían pasado una quebrada de la calle que era de diez ó doce pasos de ancho, y el agua que por ella pasaba era de hondura de mas de dos estados, y al tiempo que la pasaron habían echado en ella madera y cañas de carrizo, y cómo pasaban pocos á pocos y con tiento, no se había hundido la madera y cañas; y ellos con el placer de la victoria iban tan embebecidos, que pensaban que quedaba muy fijo.