Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years in that Country, المجلد 2C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1843 |
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agreeable amongst ANGANGUEO appeared arrived Atlacamulco beautiful breakfast bulls Bustamante called Carlos Bustamante carriage Castellan cathedral cave church color convent Cortes covered cross crowded Cruz Cuernavaca dark dinner dollars Doña Doña Marina dressed escort Excellency eyes flowers friends fruit gallop gentlemen gold Gutierrez hacienda handsome Havana head hills honor horses hundred huts Indian journey LA GABIA ladies leagues leave Lecheria LETTER light looked maguey Mexican Mexico monks Morelia morning mountain mules murder night o'clock padre paintings palace Paredes party Pascuaro passed pleasant President pretty pronunciamiento Puebla pulque received revolution ride road robbers rode San Bartolo Santa Anna seemed Señor sent silver soldiers Spaniards Spanish stone sugar Tacubaya Tampico theatre tion Toluca took tortillas trees Uruapa Valencia Vera Cruz Viceroy village Virgin walked whole wild women yesterday
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الصفحة 142 - Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
الصفحة 341 - ... the night. — Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee! How the lit lake shines, — a phosphoric sea! And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again, 'tis black, — and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
الصفحة 136 - Here a ruined arch and cross, so solidly built, that one cannot but wonder how the stones ever crumbled away. There, rising in the midst of old faithfullooking trees, the church gray and ancient, but strong as if designed for eternity; with its saints and virgins, and martyrs and relics, its gold and silver and precious stones, whose value would buy up all the spare lots in the New England village; the le"pero with scarce a rag to cover him, kneeling on that marble pavement.
الصفحة 318 - ... humour, and so were all who surrounded him — he was engaged in the dangerous amusement of colear — and by the evening it would have been a clever writer who had kept his eyes open after such a day's work. Never was there a young lad more evidently fitted for a free life in the country.
الصفحة 17 - The most striking part of the scene is the extraordinary facility which these men show in throwing the laso. The bulls being all driven into an enclosure — one after another, and sometimes two or three at a time, were chosen from amongst them, and driven into the plaza, where they were received with shouts of applause, if they appeared fierce, and likely to aiford good sport; or of irony, if they turned to fly, which happened more than once.
الصفحة 2 - Gutierrez Estrada, which has just appeared, and seems likely to cause a greater sensation in Mexico than the discovery of the gunpowder plot in England. Its sum and substance is the proposal of a constitutional Monarchy in Mexico, with a foreign prince (not named) at its head, as the only remedy for the evils by which it is afflicted. The pamphlet is written merely in a speculative form, inculcating no sanguinary measures, or sudden revolution ; but the consequences are likely to be most disastrous...
الصفحة 224 - Now there is neither principle, nor pretext, nor plan, nor the shadow of reason or legality. Disloyalty, hypocrisy, and the most sordid calculation, are all the motives that can be discovered ; and those who then affected an ardent desire for the welfare of their country have now thrown aside their masks, and appear in their true colors ; and the great mass of the people, who, thus passive and oppressed, allow their quiet homes to be invaded, are kept in awe neither by the force of arms, nor by the...
الصفحة 142 - And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people. 48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
الصفحة 134 - Travelling in New England, for example, we arrive at a small and flourishing village. We see four new churches, proclaiming four different sects; religion suited to all customers. These wooden churches or meeting-houses are all new, all painted white, or perhaps a bright red. Hard by is a tavern with a green paling, as clean and as new as the churches, and there are also various smart stores and neat dwelling-houses; all new, all wooden, all clean, and all ornamented with slight Grecian pillars....
الصفحة 221 - Guadalajara and marched upon Guanajuato ; and there a blow was given to the government party by the defection of General Cortazar, who thought fit thus to show his grateful sense of having just received the rank of general of brigade with the insignia of this new grade, which the president put on with his own hands. Another check to the president. Once begun, defection spread rapidly, and Paredes and Cortazar having advanced upon Queretaro, found that General Juvera, with his garrison, had already...