| John L. Stephens - 1841 - 532 pàgines
...have visited every part of it, he says that " there is not, in all the extent of that vast empire, a single monument or vestige of any building more ancient than the conquest." At that time, distrust was perhaps the safer side for the historian ; but since Dr. Robertson wrote... | |
| 1842 - 506 pàgines
...advance towards improvement." " There is not," he continues, " in all the extent of that vast empire, a single monument or vestige of any building more ancient than the conquest." Such was the opinion of this great historian, founded, doubtless, upon the most correct information... | |
| 1867 - 796 pàgines
...epoch, the abode of uncivilized men. "There is not " (says he*) " in all the extent of the vast empire a single monument, or vestige of any building, more ancient than the conquest;" and again: "The inhabitants of the New World were in a state of society so extremely rude as to be unacquainted... | |
| 1850 - 534 pàgines
...adventurers. So little, indeed, was the existence of these monuments known, that the able, philosophic, and conscientious Scottish historian, Dr Robertson,...unknown regions. In one of his reports to Charles V., Cortez describes his manner of proceeding in Mexico as follows : — ' I formed the design of demolishing... | |
| 1850 - 270 pàgines
...adventurers. So little, indeed, was the existence of these monuments known, that the able, philosophic, and conscientious Scottish historian, Dr Robertson,...countries at that period led him to the conclusion tlmt the progenitors of the American race must have been in a very barbarous state when they left the... | |
| Henry Howe - 1854 - 740 pàgines
...adveaturers. So little, indeed, was the existence of these monuments known, that the able, philosophic, and conscientious Scottish historian, Dr. Robertson,...unknown regions. In one of his reports to Charles V, Cortez describes his manner of proceeding in Mexico as follows : — ' I formed the design of demolishing... | |
| Robert Anderson Wilson - 1859 - 560 pàgines
...Spain, and who have visited every part of it, — " There is not in all the extent of that vast empire a single monument or vestige of any building more ancient than the conquest," — a statement strictly true, if we except the Phoenician remains of the south country, which in some... | |
| Robert Anderson Wilson - 1859 - 562 pàgines
...Spain, and who have visited every part of it, — "There is not in all the extent of that vast empire a single monument or vestige of any building more ancient than the conquest," — a statement strictly true, if we except the Phoenician remains of the south country, which in some... | |
| 1869 - 730 pàgines
...epoch, the abode of uncivilized men. "There is not," says he, "in all the extent of the vast empire a single monument, or vestige of any building, more ancient than the conquest ;" and again : " The inhabitants of the New World were in a state of society so extremely rude as to be unacquainted... | |
| Justin Winsor - 1889 - 542 pàgines
...in the last part of the preceding century, had ventured to say that in all New Spain there was not "a single monument or vestige of any building more ancient than the Conquest." After Humboldt, the most famous of what may be called the pioneers of this art were Kingsborough, Dupaix.... | |
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