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The Administration was generally good, so that their Politicks were much better than their Religión

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That the Cazique of that Island being then with Cortez, this last, after interrupting the Priest, told the Cazique, that, in order to preserve the Peace, and Friendship, agreed on betwixt them, it was essential for him to renounce the Worship of his…

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The first adventurer to America found absolute monarchy established there also: the whole power being lodged in the Emperor of Mexico, and the Ynca’s of Peru.

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When Cortez landed at Vera Cruz, the Mexicans could not write; for the dispatches sent to Montezuma were painted on cloth, &c. resembling every circumstance in the business of which he was to be informed. This emperor was the eleventh Monarch who…

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I have not the least doubt, but that all the Provinces in America, would have purchased an Independency of trade from us, at a very large stipend or tax. –Was that tax equal to the mines of Mexico and Peru, it would do us no more good than those…

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Let us endeavour to punish the perfidy of Spain, and to gain an equivalent for the Netherlands in Mexico and Peru, The oppression which the native and the African inhabitants of those rich and extensive territories endure from their Spanish tyrants,…

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The Spanish Monarchs have become, in effect, the heads of the Roman Catholic American church. In them the administration of its revenues is vested.

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The greatest part, however, of this vast country is still in the hands of the natives, who are a peaceable and generous people.

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When Cortez landed at Vera Cruz, the Mexicans could not write; for the dispatches sent to Montezuma were painted on cloth, &c. resembling every circumstance in the business of which he was to be informed. This emperor was the eleventh Monarch who…

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Thus, after draining Africa of Slaves, after torturing the poor Indians, after immense, fatigues, dangers, deaths; from the bowels of the mountains of Mexico and Peru, are drawn the shining ores, which, after dazzling the eyes of men for a time, are…

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others have stretched their Fancy to prove, that the Mexican Monarchy was the Beast mentioned in the 13th Chapter of the Revelations, and to make it the more probable, they form the Number 666 out of the Names of the Mexican Kings and Nations who…

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Les Prêtres dans le Pérou & dans le Mexique , étoient, après les Rois, à la tête des deux Nations.

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Telle est encore l´Amérique Espagnole, plus éloignée peut-être de l´état d´une société policée, qu´elle ne l´etoit sous la puissance des souverains du Mexique & du Pérou.

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(1) La fiscalité est à peu près telle que nous venons de la peindre au Mexique , la possession Espagnole la mieux administrée, dit-on; aussi l´on y ressent les mêmes effets; & l´on assure que le roi d´Espagne, qui a acheté, & qui paie par…

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Le concile du Mexique , tenu en 1585, chap . 5, règle les fonctions du chantre , & dit qu´il doit faire mettre, toutes les semaines, dans le choeur un tableau où l´ordre du service divin soit marqué; qu´il doit y désigner ceux des dignitaires,…

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On lit même, dans les actes d´un concile tenu au Mexique dans la fin du pénultième siècle, que cette distribution fut renouvellée par l´autorité du pape & du roi d´Espagne, & qu´elle s´observe encore aujourd´hui dans tous les diocèses de ce…

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Le roi d´Espagne a tenté, dans le siècle dernier, de dessecher les environs de la ville de Mexique , par le moyen du canal de Geagueroca; mais ce projet n´a pas reussi, quoiqu´on y ait dépensé plus de trois millions de pièces d´or.

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Nous avons dans l´année 1683. donné nos Ordres pour entreprendre la decouverte des Pays & Terres qui sont situez dans la partie Septentrionnale de l´Amerique, entre la nouvelle France & le nouveau Mexique, & le Sieur de la Salle que Nous…

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Nous avons dans l´année 1683. donné nos Ordres pour entreprendre la decouverte des Pays & Terres qui sont situez dans la partie Septentrionnale de l´Amerique, entre la nouvelle France & le nouveau Mexique, & le Sieur de la Salle que Nous…

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Nous avons dans l´année 1683. donné nos Ordres pour entreprendre la decouverte des Pays & Terres qui sont situez dans la partie Septentrionnale de l´Amerique, entre la nouvelle France & le nouveau Mexique, & le Sieur de la Salle que Nous…

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Nous avons dans l´année 1683. donné nos Ordres pour entreprendre la decouverte des Pays & Terres qui sont situez dans la partie Septentrionnale de l´Amerique, entre la nouvelle France & le nouveau Mexique , & le Sieur de la Salle que…

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I have not the least doubt, but that all the Provinces in America, would have purchased an Independency of trade from us, at a very large stipend or tax. –Was that tax equal to the mines of Mexico and Peru, it would do us no more good than those…

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Unable to continue the war, though with the mines of Peru and Mexico, Spain felt the woeful mistake she had made, and, from the terror of Europe, became almost its pity.

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Thus, after draining Africa of Slaves, after torturing the poor Indians, after immense, fatigues, dangers, deaths; from the bowels of the mountains of Mexico and Peru, are drawn the shining ores, which, after dazzling the eyes of men for a time, are…

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When he [Moctezuma II] went abroad, he was always carry’d on the Shoulders of his Grandees, never wore one Garment twice, nor eat or drank out of any Vessel but once. Gemelli makes him another Sardanapalus

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If the Mexicans had any God which they imagined presided over the rest, it was the Sun. It is evident. They had a great Veneration for this Planet, from the Speeches of Montezuma, and their ascribing whatever was great and wonderful to this Direction…

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Montezuma was the 11th Emperor of Mexico of that line, when Cortez landed in the country,

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The Spanish Monarchs have become, in effect, the heads of the Roman Catholic American church. In them the administration of its revenues is vested.

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But there is no part of it more celebrated in history than New Spain, or Old Mexico, which was a great and flourishing monarchy for several ages, governed by its own kings, chosen out of their chief captains, without regard to hereditary succession,…

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Assemblies that Europe had then seen, till the precious ores of Peru and Mexico, tempted them to subvert the Liberties of their country.

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That within the Pyramid were several Vaults, where the Kings had been buried; for which reason the Road it was called Micaotli, or the Highway of the Dead; and about it were several little Mounts, or Tumuli, supposed to be the Burying-places of their…

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Human sacrifices were, at this period, more frequent in the metropolis of England, than they had ever been in either Carthage or Mexico. The Ministers of Peace and Christianity were the active dispensers of death and desolation

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There are 12 tribunals in the different provinces of Spain, called Chancillerias, Consejos, or Audiencias.

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All the Time he staid here, he never went abroad, but to hear Divine Service. And touch the Marchioness de Villa Manrico sent three Times, desiring me to bring him to her, he excused himself, saying, “I have no Need of seeing Her, nor She of seeing…

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The provinces are governed by viceroys (Virreyes); and all the American dominions of Spain are divided into three royal governments, under the viceroys of New Granada, Mexico, and Peru.

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