Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 11. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 652
... Cortes , without allowing his men time to cool , fet about carrying his defigns into exe- 85 cution . In order to give a beginning to a colony , he Villa Rica affembled the principal perfons in his army , and by founded . their ...
... Cortes , without allowing his men time to cool , fet about carrying his defigns into exe- 85 cution . In order to give a beginning to a colony , he Villa Rica affembled the principal perfons in his army , and by founded . their ...
Page 653
... Cortes , in reply , artfully infinuated , that one great object of the Spaniards in vifiting a country fo remote from their own was , to redrefs grievances , and to relieve the opprefied ; and having encouraged him to hope for this ...
... Cortes , in reply , artfully infinuated , that one great object of the Spaniards in vifiting a country fo remote from their own was , to redrefs grievances , and to relieve the opprefied ; and having encouraged him to hope for this ...
Page 657
... Cortes com- plied with their defire . A fifth of the whole was fet apart as the tax due to the king . Another fifth was allowed to Cortes as commander . The fums advan . ced by the governor of Cuba , who had originally fit- ted out the ...
... Cortes com- plied with their defire . A fifth of the whole was fet apart as the tax due to the king . Another fifth was allowed to Cortes as commander . The fums advan . ced by the governor of Cuba , who had originally fit- ted out the ...
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