The Works of William H. Prescott: History of the conquest of MexicoJ. B. Lippincott, 1904 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 87 - ... young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
Página 118 - ... that they should have done this, without knowledge of the language or of the land, without chart or compass to guide them, without any idea of the difficulties they were to encounter, totally uncertain whether the next step might bring them on a hostile nation, or on a desert, feeling their way along in the dark as it were...
Página 255 - 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 naturali, non voluptate, modus finitus: vigiliarum somnique nee die, nee nocte discriminata tempora. Id, quod gerendis rebus superesset, quieti datum ; ea neque molli strato, neque silentio arcessita.
Página 86 - The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the 10 ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of...
Página 279 - ... una cierva, y en ella un brazo asido de un arco con unas flechas, y como un hombre armado con su morrión y...
Página 112 - ... the Western World. At this crisis came over another race from the remote East, strangers like themselves, whose coming had also been predicted by the oracle, and, appearing on the plateau, assailed them in the very zenith of their prosperity, and blotted them out from the map of nations forever ! The whole story has the air of fable rather than of history ! a legend of romance, — a tale of the genii ! Yet we cannot regret the fall of an empire which did so little to promote the happiness of...
Página 113 - Aztecs, a generous graft on a vicious stock, and could have brought no fruit to perfection. They ruled over their wide domains with a sword, instead of a sceptre. They did nothing to ameliorate the condition, or in any way promote the progress, of their vassals. Their vassals were serfs, used only to minister to their pleasure, held in awe by armed garrisons, ground to the dust by imposts in peace, by military conscriptions in war.
Página 244 - ... determinado, mando que todo aquello que generalmente se averiguare que en este caso se debe hacer para descargo de las conciencias en lo que toca a estos esclavos de la dicha Nueva...
Página 100 - No me tiren, que yo soy el rey de México y desta tierra, y lo que te ruego es, que no me llegues a mi mujer ni a mis hijos, ni a ninguna mujer ni a ninguna cosa de lo que aquí traigo, sino que me tomes a mí y me lleves a Malinche.
Página 111 - Thus, after a siege of nearly three months' duration, unmatched in history for the constancy and courage of the besieged, seldom surpassed for the severity of its sufferings, fell the renowned capital of the Aztecs.