The Historical Writings of John Fiske: Illustrated with Many Photogravures, Maps, Charts, Facsimiles, Etc. ...Houghton. Mifflin Company, 1902 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
aboriginal Algonquins ancient America Asia Aztec Bandelier Bjarni Brattahlid Bureau of Ethnology Bygd called Cape Cape Farewell century chap Charnay Chichen-Itza chief chief-of-men city of Mexico civilization clan coast confederacy conquest Cortes culture Discovery Eric the Red Eskimos Europe European federacy fiord Freydis Fusang Greeks Greenland H. H. Bancroft head war-chief Heimskringla Hist Houses and House-Life human Iceland Indians Iroquois island kinship land Leif Leif's Lenape London lower status maize Mayas Mexican Mexico Mississippi valley Montezuma Morgan mound-builders mounds narrative Nicolò North America Northmen Norway notion Palenque Paris period of barbarism phratry priestly primitive probably pueblos pulque race Rafn Roman ruins sachem Saga sailed seems ship Skrælings society Spaniards Spanish stage status of barbarism stone story supposed things Thorfinn Thorfinn Karlsefni tion tlacatecuhtli Tlascala tribal tribal-council tribes tribute Uxmal Vinland visited voyages Yucatan Zuñi καὶ
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 81 - The stores were in common; but woe to the luckless husband or lover who was too shiftless to do his share of the providing. No matter how many children or whatever goods he might have in the house, he might at any time be ordered to pick up his blanket and budge...
Seite 156 - ... the same races who inhabited the country at the time of the Spanish conquest, or some not very distant progenitors.
Seite 38 - Memmi. arma antiqua manus ungues dentesque fuerunt et lapides et item silvarum fragmina rami, et flamma atque ignes, postquam sunt cognita primum. posterius ferri vis est aerisque reperta. 1286 at prior aeris erat quam ferri cognitus usus, quo facilis magis est natura et copia maior.
Seite 331 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth 945 Had from his wakeful custody purloin'd • The guarded gold : So eagerly the Fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies...
Seite 327 - Polo that they claimed to be ; and so all paid them the greatest honour and reverence. And when the story got wind in Venice, straightway the whole city, gentle and simple, flocked to the house to embrace them, and to make much of them, with every conceivable demonstration of affection and respect. On Messer...
Seite 358 - Consurgit, premitur Libyae devexus in austros. Hic vertex nobis semper sublimis ; at ilium Sub pedibus Styx atra videt Manesque profundi.
Seite 34 - New England, who would have found it much harder to gain a secure foothold upon the soil if they had had to begin by preparing it for wheat and rye without the aid of the beautiful and beneficent American plant.
Seite 333 - And don't forget that if you treat the custom-house officers with respect, and make them something of a present in goods or money, they will behave with great civility and always be ready to appraise your wares below their real value.
Seite 79 - ... in the center of the hall, used in common by their occupants. Thus a house with five fires would contain twenty apartments and accommodate twenty families, unless some apartments were reserved for storage. They were warm, roomy, and tidilykept habitations. Raised bunks were constructed around the walls of each apartment for beds. From the roof-poles were suspended their strings of corn in the ear, braided by the husks, also strings of dried squashes and pumpkins. Spaces were contrived here and...
Seite 87 - Senecas, were brothers and sisters to each other in virtue of their descent from the same common [female] ancestor, and they recognized each other as such with the fullest cordiality. When they met, the first inquiry was the name of each other's gens, and next the immediate pedigree of...