 | 1844 - 792 páginas
...from the map of nations for ever ! The whole story has the air of fable rather than of history 1 — a legend of romance, — a tale of the genii ! Yet...extend the rights of citizenship to the conquered. * Maximilian of Germany and Ferdinand of Spain barely left enough to bury them. Henry IV. of France... | |
 | 1844 - 742 páginas
...vicious stock, and could have brought no fruit to perfection. They ruled over their wide domains with « sword, instead of a sceptre. They did nothing to ameliorate...extend the rights of citizenship to the conquered. * Maximilian of Germany and Ferdinand of Spain barely left enough to bury them. Henry IV. of France... | |
 | 1849 - 544 páginas
...perfection. They ruled over their wide domains with a sword instead of a sceptre. They did nothing in any way to ameliorate the condition, or in any way promote...were serfs, used only to minister to their pleasure." (Vol. III., pp. 215, 216.) " The feeble light of civilization," he says, " was growing fainter and... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1858 - 580 páginas
...fierce and brutal race, little calculated, in their best respects, to excite our sympathy and regard. They did nothing to ameliorate the condition, or in any way promote the progress of their vassals, who were serfs, used only to minister to their pleasure, held in awe by armed garrisons, ground to... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - 1855 - 436 páginas
...Prior to the arrival of the Spaniards, they lived under a kind of oligarchical government. a fierce aud brutal race, little calculated, in their best aspects,...imposts in peace, by military conscriptions in war. " The Aztecs not only did not advance the condition of their vassals, but, morally speaking, they did... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 páginas
...perfection. They ruled over their wide domains with a sword instead of a sceptre. They did nothing in any way to ameliorate the condition or in any way promote...were serfs, used only to minister to their pleasure." (Vol. III. pp. 215, 216.) " The feeble light of civilization," he says, " was growing fainter and fainter."... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1867 - 550 páginas
...it was, was not their own, but reflected, perhaps in) perfectly, from a race whom they had succeec^d in the land. It was, in respect to the Aztecs, a generous...conscriptions in war. They did not, like the Romans, wrhorn they resembled in the nature of their conquests, extend the rights of citizenship to the conquered.... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 páginas
...perfection. They ruled over their wide domains with a sword instead of a sceptre. They did nothing in any way to ameliorate the condition or in any way promote...were serfs, used only to minister to their pleasure." (Vol. III. pp. 215, 216.) " The feeble light of civilization," he says, " was growing fainter and fainter."... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 páginas
...race, little calculated, in their best aspects, to excite our sympathy and regard. Their civilisation, such as it was, was not their own, but reflected,...ground to the dust by imposts in peace, by military Qonscriptions in war. They did not, like the Romans, whom they resembled in the nature of their conquests,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 páginas
...perfection. They ruled over their wide domains with a sword instead of a sceptre. They did nothing in any way to ameliorate the condition or in any way promote...were serfs, used only to minister to their pleasure." " The feeble light of civilization," he says, " was growing fainter and fainter." He gives not a single... | |
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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... 
