The Conquerors of the New World and Their Bondsmen, 2. kötet

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W. Pickering, 1852

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189. oldal - 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 defraudeth 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.
112. oldal - On the part of the king, Don Fernando, and of Dona Juana, his daughter, queen of Castile and Leon, subduers of the barbarous nations, we their servants notify and make known to you, as best we can, that the Lord our God, living and eternal, created the heaven and the earth, and one man and one woman, of whom you and we, and all the men of the world, were and are descendants, and all those who come after us.
21. oldal - 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 Quetzalcoatl, the god of the air.
267. oldal - This advice, that license should be given to bring negro slaves to these lands, the clerigo Casas first gave, not considering the injustice with which the Portuguese take them and make them slaves; which advice, after he had apprehended the nature of the thing, he would not have given for all he had in the world. For he always held that they had been made slaves unjustly and tyrannically; for the same reason holds good of them as of the Indians.

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