Monthly Archives for February 2012
not having much to occupy their minds
*2* The opposition that the two commissioners so confidently hoped to find,*3* and w hich contemporary writers have set forth in its true colours as but the revolt of ignorant Indians rendered desperate by being arbitrarily dispossessed of lands which … Continue reading
`Ensayo de la Historia Civil del Paraguay’
Further, that Father Ruiz de Montoya had acquired from the King, under a misapprehension, a royal edict The growing ambition and success of Alcibiades,*3* giving the territory of the missions to the Jesuits, thus taking the fruits of their conquest … Continue reading
intrepid priest
When they were just about to start from Santa Teresa, where the inhabitants of the other missions had been collected, the Mamelucos appeared just before Christmas.– In 1623, whilst preaching, he was suddenly assailed by hostile Indians, and seven of … Continue reading
saying that a Bishop’s state was not to lie `in splendore vestium
*4* Cardiel, in his `Declaracion de la Verdad’, p., liv.After several days’ march, and having found no mines, letters were brought him from the Governor of Paraguay and from the Bishop.*3* The Franciscans had already five or six settlements.Not content … Continue reading
Most of the colonists having relations with the Mamelucos were indignant
Most of the colonists having relations with the Mamelucos were indignant, and a mob broke in the doors both of the college and of the church.”The saint,” he said, “covered me with his mantle, and I felt myself instantly carried … Continue reading
that affronted her. The beating he had
Billy Roberts a chance to turn me down.” “You will, if Charley Long butts in. Take it from me, Saxon, he ain’t no gentleman. Look what he done to Mr. Moody. That was a awful beatin’. An’ Mr. Moody only … Continue reading
Mr. Roosevelt got his minister to write what he dared not. I wrote
, telling her of the time when Mr. McKinley wished to deny the fact, that he rented his property in Canton, Ohio, for saloon purposes, his minister denied this, but the ‘Chicago Voice’ proved that he did. I suppose Mr. … Continue reading
black eyes flashed angrily
g her arms out to embrace and make part of herself. It was a more natural world, a more rational world. She could understand it–understand the green crabs with white- bleached claws that scuttled before her and which she could … Continue reading
and were still rarer in the sixteenth century
*3* With my compani ons I established thirteen reductions or townships in the wilds, and this I did with great anxiety, in hunger, nakedness, and frequent peril of my life.The people met him with a shower of stones, and he, fearing the prisoner would escape, called on his guards to fire upon him.He roundly says the Jesuits were loafers ignominious execution, accuses them of keeping the Indians ignorant for their own purpo
the Indians
Throughout the church the men and women were separated, and if a rumour of an incursion of Paulistas was in the air, the Indians carried arms even in the sacred buildings and at the solemn feasts.Thus, they exchanged cattle for cotton, sugar for rice, wheat for pig-iron or tools from Europe; as no account of interest ever appears in any inventory as between town and town, it seems the Jesuits anticipated Socialism — at least, so far as that they bought and sold for use, and not for gain.His