Recollections of MexicoWiley and Putnam, 1846 - 304 páginas |
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... lands of General Santa Anna - which extend an immense distance on both sides of it ; much of this land is of good quality , and would produce cotton and sugar most profitably . Very little of it is in cultivation , with the trifling ...
... lands of General Santa Anna - which extend an immense distance on both sides of it ; much of this land is of good quality , and would produce cotton and sugar most profitably . Very little of it is in cultivation , with the trifling ...
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... lands for a rent which they pay him ; I believe , forty dollars per annum for a hundred head . I do not know that I have ever seen a more beautiful spot than the city of Jalapa . When the atmosphere is clear you may see the shipping in ...
... lands for a rent which they pay him ; I believe , forty dollars per annum for a hundred head . I do not know that I have ever seen a more beautiful spot than the city of Jalapa . When the atmosphere is clear you may see the shipping in ...
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... land , to an enormous size , the centre stem very often twenty - five or thirty feet high , and twelve or fifteen inches in diameter at the bottom ; the branches a foot and a half wide , and four or five inches thick . When the plant is ...
... land , to an enormous size , the centre stem very often twenty - five or thirty feet high , and twelve or fifteen inches in diameter at the bottom ; the branches a foot and a half wide , and four or five inches thick . When the plant is ...
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... rich . In many places , such as the plain of which I have been speak- ing , the land is very good ; nowhere , however , to be com- What is still more remark- Apared with our richest oak CHAP . III . ] 17 THE MAGUEY - PULQUE .
... rich . In many places , such as the plain of which I have been speak- ing , the land is very good ; nowhere , however , to be com- What is still more remark- Apared with our richest oak CHAP . III . ] 17 THE MAGUEY - PULQUE .
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... lands . The plough in universal use is that used two thousand years ago- neither more nor less than a wooden wedge , without a par- ticle of iron attached to it . The hoe is a wooden staff , with an iron spike in the end . able , the ...
... lands . The plough in universal use is that used two thousand years ago- neither more nor less than a wooden wedge , without a par- ticle of iron attached to it . The hoe is a wooden staff , with an iron spike in the end . able , the ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 249 - Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterwards revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompanied their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious in war.
Página 249 - ... victorious in war. Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that cure is freedom.
Página 249 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to vise their freedom.
Página 98 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown...
Página 249 - In the same manner, the final and permanent fruits of liberty are wisdom, moderation, and mercy. Its immediate effects are often atrocious crimes, conflicting errors, scepticism on points the most clear, dogmatism on points the most mysterious.
Página 295 - Bocanegra the secretary of foreign affairs of Mexico] complaining that for that whole period citizens of the United States or its Government have been favoring the rebels of Texas and supplying them with vessels, ammunition, and money, as if the war for the reduction of the Province of Texas had been constantly prosecuted by Mexico, and her success prevented by these influences from abroad.
Página 236 - Germans proposed that, in the event of a war between the United States and Germany, Mexico attack the United States. After the war, the "lost territories" of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona would be returned to Mexico.
Página 292 - The articles of contraband, before enumerated and classified, which may be found in a vessel bound for an enemy's port, shall be subject to detention and confiscation, leaving free the rest of the cargo and the ship, that the owners may dispose of them as they see proper. No vessel of either of the two nations shall be detained on the high seas on account of having on board articles of contraband, whenever the master, captain or supercargo of said...
Página 301 - ... with certain stated requisitions, to take upon themselves the character of citizens of this government. Mexico herself has laws granting equal facilities to the naturalization of foreigners. On the other hand, the United States have not passed any law restraining their own citizens, native or naturalized, from leaving the country and forming political relations elsewhere. Nor do other governments, in modern times, attempt any such thing. It is true that there are governments which assert the...
Página 248 - License they mean when they cry Liberty ; For who loves that, must first be wise and good ; But from that mark how far they rove we see For all this waste of wealth, and loss of blood.