Hernan Cortes Quotes

Hernan Cortes
Spanish Leader
Born: 1485
Died: 1547
Accustomed Body City Fully Water Within
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We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure. Hernan Cortes
Heart Sickness Only Know Cure Gold
He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. Hernan Cortes
Dark He Safest Who Travels Night
The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. Hernan Cortes
Speak Water Half Seville City Some Principal Very Inferior Straight Land Large Wide Streets
The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean. Hernan Cortes
Eat Clean Hall Were Covered Very Quite Accustomed Dishes Which Meals Room Large Filled Served Kept
Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve. Hernan Cortes
Success War Prosperity Victory Honor Everything Seek Thus Another Idol Idols Labors Which Petition Serve Desire
This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling. Hernan Cortes
Other Markets City Selling Squares Situated Which Places Public Many Buying
The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses. Hernan Cortes
Woman Society Enter Religious Priests Houses Female Permitted Nor Debarred Any
There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville. Hernan Cortes
Church Seville Lofty Higher Main Leading Steps Tower Towers Principal Well Built Than Which Fifty Body Forty Fully Largest
There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price. Hernan Cortes
Food Sold Furnish Drink Price Head Shave Liquid Shops Where Certain Plaster Wash Prepared Medicines
An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. Hernan Cortes
Water Other City Distributed About Drink Purposes Excellent Volume Supply Abundant Equal Bulk Pipes Human Where Human Body Forming Conveyed Body Inhabitants Used

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