The Life of Hernando Cortes, Volume 1G. Bell, 1896 |
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... mean , I venture to assert , that probably every youth who has had any education , either in the Old or the New World , has some knowledge of the deeds of Columbus , Cortes , and Pizarro , while one of the foremost generals in the world ...
... mean , I venture to assert , that probably every youth who has had any education , either in the Old or the New World , has some knowledge of the deeds of Columbus , Cortes , and Pizarro , while one of the foremost generals in the world ...
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... Both of them thorough gentlemen , very dignified , very nice and precise in all their ways and habits , they were sadly indifferent as to the severity of the means by 6 CHARACTER OF CORTES . which they compassed their ends.
... Both of them thorough gentlemen , very dignified , very nice and precise in all their ways and habits , they were sadly indifferent as to the severity of the means by 6 CHARACTER OF CORTES . which they compassed their ends.
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... means a body of men occupying a certain portion of land , which land was to be worked , and which men were to be employed , in almost any way that might be most profitable to the Spanish Lord . How Velazquez wished to be paid . 10 ...
... means a body of men occupying a certain portion of land , which land was to be worked , and which men were to be employed , in almost any way that might be most profitable to the Spanish Lord . How Velazquez wished to be paid . 10 ...
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... mean " Come to my house , " a friendly invitation which the voyagers heard very often at this part of the coast . could not but at once remark that the natives of this new - found land were more civilized in dress and in the arts of ...
... mean " Come to my house , " a friendly invitation which the voyagers heard very often at this part of the coast . could not but at once remark that the natives of this new - found land were more civilized in dress and in the arts of ...
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... means of his Indians : - " How many of whom died in extracting this gold for him , God will have kept a better account than I have , " says Las Casas . It must have been in the nature of Velazquez to forgive heartily , for we find that ...
... means of his Indians : - " How many of whom died in extracting this gold for him , God will have kept a better account than I have , " says Las Casas . It must have been in the nature of Velazquez to forgive heartily , for we find that ...
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