The Rambler in MexicoR. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1836 - 309 páginas |
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Página 309 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Página 309 - WE therefore commit his body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the sea shall give up her dead...
Página 206 - 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).
Página 156 - You may further understand that the interior of the churches were no more the theatre of silence than the streets without, when I tell you, that, in addition to the incessant stream of worshippers which poured along their pavement from one door to another the livelong day — in many of them, waltzes, boleros, and polonaises, from harpsichord or organ, were the accompaniment of the hasty devotion of the passing multitudes.
Página 207 - He ordered bricks to be made in the province of Tlamanalco, at the foot of the Sierra of Cocotl, and to convey them to Cholula, he placed a file of men, who passed them from hand to hand. The gods beheld with wrath this edifice, the top of which was to reach the clouds. Irritated at the daring attempt of Xelhua, they hurled fire on the pyramid. Numbers of the workmen perished; the work was" discontinued, and the monument was afterwards dedicated to Quetzalcotl, the .god of the air...
Página 206 - Xelhua, surnamed the architect, went to Cholollan, where, as a memorial of the mountain Tlaloc, which had served for an asylum to himself and his six brethren, he built an artificial hill in form of a pyramid.
Página 163 - They retain their superstition, their talismans, their charms ; and as they were priest-led under the old system, so they are kept in adherence to the Church of Rome by the continual bustle of the festivals and ceremonials and processions of the Church. But as to change of heart and purpose — a knowledge of the true God as 'a Spirit who is to be worshipped in spirit and in truth...
Página 205 - ... was strewed. Tezpi sent out other birds, one of which, the hummingbird, alone returned, holding in its beak a branch covered with leaves. Tezpi, seeing that fresh verdure began to clothe the soil, quitted his bark near the Mountain of Coihuacan."— Humb.
Página 161 - ... and more dignified divinities ? purer rites ? a less degrading superstition ? less disgusting ignorance ? a better system of morality ? — Who will dare to assert it ? As to the charge of the inhuman rites, and the bloody festivals of the later generations of the Aztecs,— the magnitude of which as asserted by the Roman Catholic historians is almost incredible,—no one offers to palliate them.
Página 161 - Spanish historians relate, the hearts of the victims were torn out. Yes! but no officious cicerone leads you to the court of the Dominican convent, and points out the broad perforated stone, where the hundreds and thousands of poor benighted, ignorant heathen expired at the stake amidst smoke and flame.