The Mexican Guide

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C. Scribner's sons, 1890 - Počet stran: 531

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Strana 84 - Books, libraries, usual and reasonable furniture, and similar household effects of persons or families from foreign countries, all the foregoing if actually used abroad by them not less than one year, and not intended for any other person or persons, nor for sale.
Strana 85 - Whenever any article subject to duty is found in the baggage of any person arriving within the United States, which was not, at the time ot making entry for such baggage, mentioned to the collector before whom such entry was made, by the person making entry, such article shall be forfeited, and the person in whose baggage it is found shall be liable to a penalty of treble the value of such article.
Strana 84 - Wearing apparel in actual use, and other personal effects, not merchandise, professional books, implements, instruments, and tools of trade, occupation, or -employment, of persons arriving in the United States...
Strana 303 - I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.
Strana 205 - ... heresies. Amen." In 1820 the Inquisition was suppressed forever in Mexico. Janvier says that " there is a certain poetic fitness to be found in the fact that the last years of the Inquisition in Mexico were spent in combating strenuously the spread of Liberalism ; that the last notable auto de fe ( November 26, 1815) was that at which the accused was the patriot Morelos. The finding against him was a foregone conclusion. ' The Presbitero Jose Maria Morelos...
Strana 321 - ... other flower to be found that is rare and exquisite in that country which is not in that wildernesse to delight the senses of these mortified Eremites.
Strana 84 - ... 512. Books, engravings, photographs, bound or unbound etchings, maps, and charts, which shall have been printed and bound or manufactured more than twenty years at the date of importation. 513. Books and pamphlets printed exclusively in languages other than English ; also books and music, in raised print, used exclusively by the blind. 514. Books, engravings, photographs, etchings, bound or unbound, maps and charts...
Strana 321 - Carmelites, to make show of their apparent godliness, and who would be thought to live like hermits, retired from the world, that they may draw the world unto them. They have built them a stately cloister, which, being upon a hill and among rocks, makes it to be most admired.
Strana 201 - ... most necessary that the Holy Office of the Inquisition shall be extended to this land, because of the commerce with strangers here carried on, and because of the many corsairs abounding upon our coasts, which strangers may bring their evil customs among both natives and Castilians, who, by the grace of God, should be kept free from heresy.
Strana 60 - in this last moment of my life I recommend to you the love of your country, and the observance of our holy religion. I die for having come to aid you; and depart happy because I die among you. I die with honor, not as a traitor. That stain will not attach to my children and their descendants. Preserve order, and be obedient to your commanders. From the bottom of my heart, I forgive all my enemies.

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