The Spanish Conquest in America: And Its Relation to the History of Slavery and to the Government of Colonies, 1. kötet

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323. oldal - The Most High is not pleased with the offerings of the wicked; neither is he pacified for sin by the multitude of sacrifices. Whoso bringeth an offering of the goods of the poor, doeth as one that killeth the son before his father's eyes. The bread of the needy is their life : he that def raudeth him thereof is a man of blood. He that taketh away his neighbour's living slayeth him ; and he that defraudeth the labourer of his hire is a bloodshedder.
159. oldal - But now farewell. I am going a long way With these thou seest — if indeed I go — (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island- valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard-lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
12. oldal - To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly. On every side he was encompassed with a vast extent of sea and land, which he could never hope to traverse without Being discovered, seized, and restored to his irritated master.
266. oldal - Wherefore, as best we can, we ask and require you that you consider what we have said to you. and that you take the time that shall be necessary to understand and deliberate upon it, and that you acknowledge the Church as the Ruler and Superior of the whole world and the high priest called Pope, and in his name the King and Queen...
265. oldal - Tierra-finne to the aforesaid King and Queen and to their successors, our lords, with all that there are in these territories, as is contained in certain writings which passed upon the subject as aforesaid, which you can see if you wish. " So their Highnesses are kings and lords of these islands and land of...
77. oldal - ... as catholic Christians and princes, lovers and promoters of the holy Christian faith, and enemies of the sect of Mahomet, and of all idolatries and heresies...
122. oldal - He raised me with His divine arm, saying: 'O man of little faith, arise, it is I, be not afraid!
264. oldal - Lord, who is one and eternal, created the heaven and the earth, and one man and one woman, of whom you and we, and all the men who have been or shall be in the world, are descended. But as it has come to pass through the...
251. oldal - Poncha, and, on the contrary, secured his friendship by presenting him with looking-glasses, hatchets, and hawks'-bells, in return for which he obtained guides and porters from among this cacique's people, and was enabled to prosecute his journey. Following Poncha's guides, Vasco Nunez and his men commenced the ascent of the mountains, until he entered the country of an Indian chief called Quarequa, whom they found fully prepared to resist them. The brave Indian advanced at the head of his troops,...
349. oldal - Cardinal Ximenes, however, when solicited to encourage, this commerce, peremptorily rejected the proposition, because he perceived the iniquity of reducing one race of men to slavery, while he was consulting about the means of restoring liberty to another.

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