 | 1801 - 730 sidor
...admitting the largtft canoes. The whole was ornamented with works of art, painted, and admirably plaiftcred and whitened, and it was rendered more delightful by numbers of beautiful birds. When I belitld the fcencs that were around me, I ihought within myfelf thnt this was the garden of... | |
 | 1801 - 584 sidor
...admitting the largeft canoes. The whole was ornamented with works of art, painted, and admirably plaiilered and whitened, and it was rendered more delightful by numbers of beautiful birds. When I beheld the fcenes chat were around me, I thought within myfelf that this was the garden of the... | |
 | 1801 - 588 sidor
...largeft canoes. The whole • v,-a» ornamented witli works of art, painted, and admirably plaiftertd and whitened, and it was rendered more delightful by numbers of beautiful birds. When I beheld the fcenes that were around me, I thought within myfelf that this was the garden of the... | |
 | Bernal Díaz del Castillo - 1803 - 360 sidor
...the largeft canoes. The wholf • was ornamented with works of art, painted, and admirably plaftered and whitened, and it was rendered more delightful by numbers of beautiful birds. When I Beheld the fcenes that were around me, I thought within rayfelf that this was the garden of... | |
 | Thomas Francis Gordon - 1832 - 380 sidor
...the grand lake of Mexico by a channel cut for the purpose. capable of admitting the largest canoes. The •whole was ornamented with works of art, painted...rendered more delightful by numbers of beautiful birds. When I beheld the scenes that were around me, I thought within myself, that this was the garden of... | |
 | 1843 - 708 sidor
...timber of which was cedar, with spacious courts and apartments furnished with canopies of the finest cotton. The whole was ornamented with works of art...palace in which we were lodged was very light, airy, clear, and pleasant, the entry being through a great court." " At the great square we were astonished... | |
 | 1900 - 676 sidor
...roses, and various flowers. Tho whole was ornamented with works of art, painted and admirably plaisterud and whitened, and it was rendered more delightful by numbers of beautiful birds. When I beheld the scenes that were around me, 1 thought within myself that this was the "arden of the... | |
 | John Wells Foster - 1874 - 432 sidor
...timber of which was cedar, with spacious courts, and apartments furnished with canopies of the finest cotton. The whole was ornamented with works of art,...more delightful by numbers of beautiful birds." The inhabitants of Central America were abundantly supplied with copper implements: When Columbus, in his... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1876 - 256 sidor
...palace of Montezuma's late father, Diaz naively remarks, observing that " the whole of this palace was very light, airy, clean, and pleasant, the entry being through a great court." f Cortes, after describing his reception, informs us that Montezuma " returned along the street in... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1876 - 494 sidor
...palace of Montezuma's late father, Diaz naively remarks, observing that " the whole of this palace was very light, airy, clean, and pleasant, the entry being through a great court." f Cortes, after describing his reception, informs us that Montezuma " returned along the street in... | |
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The whole was ornamented with works of art painted, and admirably plastered and whitened, and it was rendered more delightful by numbers of beautiful birds." "The palace in which we were lodged was very light, airy, clean, and pleasant, the entry being... 
