Beyond the Mexique BayThe author describes his experiences traveling through the Caribbean to Guatemala and southern Mexico in 1933. |
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... hundred years ago ecclesiastical slackness had produced exactly the same effects as disestablishment is producing to - day . The old religion came so boldly out into the open that in 1745 the Inquisition thought it necessary to launch a ...
... hundred years ago ecclesiastical slackness had produced exactly the same effects as disestablishment is producing to - day . The old religion came so boldly out into the open that in 1745 the Inquisition thought it necessary to launch a ...
Page 173
... hundred and sixty days ( the Mayas ' sacred year ) the Momostecos celebrate , in honour of Mundo , a great feast called the Uajxaqip Vats . ( The pronunciation - Washakip , for all practical purposes - is not so forbidding as the orthog ...
... hundred and sixty days ( the Mayas ' sacred year ) the Momostecos celebrate , in honour of Mundo , a great feast called the Uajxaqip Vats . ( The pronunciation - Washakip , for all practical purposes - is not so forbidding as the orthog ...
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... hundred times . If there were n men of talent in a population of x millions , there will presumably be 2n men of talent among 2x millions . The situation may be summed up thus . For every page of print and pictures published a century ...
... hundred times . If there were n men of talent in a population of x millions , there will presumably be 2n men of talent among 2x millions . The situation may be summed up thus . For every page of print and pictures published a century ...
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