 It was delivered to the warrior who had taken him in battle, and by him, after being dressed, was served up in an entertainment to his friends. This was not the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but a banquet teeming with delicious beverages and delicate...  The New World: Embracing American History - Page 106by Henry Howard Brownell - 1862Full view - About this book
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1844 - 348 pages
...battle, and by him, after being dressed, was served up in an entertainment to his friends. This was not the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but a banquet teeming with delicious beverages and delicate 24 Sahagun, Hist, de Nueva Espana,lib. 2, cap. 10,29. — Gomara. Crdn. cap. 219, ap. Barcia, torn.... | |
 | 1844 - 792 pages
...battle, and by him, after being dressed, was served up in an entertainment to his friends. " This was not the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but a banquet teeming with delicious * See Machiavelli, Discorsi sopra T. Livio, lib. 2, cap. 4. The early history of Mexico is best gained... | |
 | 1854 - 744 pages
...battle, and-by him, after being dressed, was served up in an entertainment to his friends. This was not the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but a banquet...themselves with all the decorum of civilized life.' f * Prescott remarks that Dante in the fitferno, Canto xxiii., unconsciously described the Mexican... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1850 - 460 pages
...battle, and by him, after being dressed, was served up in an entertainment to his friends. This was not the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but a banquet...hereafter, conducted themselves with all the decorum of civilised life. Surely, never were refinement and the extreme of barbarism brought so closely in contact... | |
 | John Frost - 1852 - 560 pages
...battle, and by him, after being dressed, was served up in an entertainment to his friends. This was not the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but a banquet...themselves with all the decorum of civilized life." The other mode of human sacrifice was the gladiatorial, where the victim was confined by a chain attached... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1852 - 436 pages
...entertainment to his friends. This was not the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but a banquet teaming with delicious beverages and delicate viands prepared...themselves with all the decorum of civilized life." 1 To such appalling uses were these pyramids, now gray with time, applied. I will now proceed to describe... | |
 | John Frost - 1852 - 562 pages
...battle, and by him, after being dressed, was served up in an entertainment to his friends. This was not the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but a banquet...prepared with art and attended by both sexes, who, as wo shall see hereafter, conducted themselves with all the decorum of civilized life." The other mode... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1874 - 782 pages
...a people in other respects one of the most civilized in the world. The historian may well say — " Surely, never were refinement and the extreme of barbarism brought so closely into contact with each other!" TABLE TALK. THE spiritualism question is getting more widely discussed... | |
 | 1874 - 802 pages
...after being dressed was served at an entertainment of his friends. "This," says Prescott, "was not the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but a banquet...viands, prepared with art and attended by both sexes, vrho conducted themselves with all the decorum of civilized life."! There were other kinds of victims.... | |
 | 1869 - 274 pages
...after being dressed, was served at an entertainment of his friends. "This," says Prescott, "was not the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but a banquet...prepared with art and attended by both sexes, who conducted themselves with all the decorum- of civilized life."'0 There were other kinds of victims.... | |
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