Travels of the Jesuits, Into Various Parts of the World: Particularly China and the East-Indies, Volume 1T. Piety, 1762 - America |
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Page viii - Curieuses, written by the Jesuit missionaries, says: "I believe it will be granted that no men are better qualified to describe nations and countries than the Jesuits. Their education, their extensive learning, the pains they take to acquire the languages of the several nations they visit, the opportunities they have by their skill in the arts and sciences. . . the familiarity with the inhabitants, their mixing with...
Page 16 - This our brother whilst he lived consisted of the four elements, now he is dead let each take his own, earth to earth, air to air, water to water, and fire to fire.
Page 248 - Noblemen of the Court did me the Honour to accompany me two Leagues, purfuant to the Orders given them for that Purpofe. We took the City of Emfras, which I mentioned before, in our Way. The Officer, our Conductor always arrived an Hour before us at the Place appointed for our Quarters. He went and alighted either at the Governor's Houfe, or at that of the principal Perfon of the Village •, and fliewed him the Orders of the Court, written on a Roll of Parchment.
Page 199 - They sit upon the ground with their legs across, the men and boys on one side and the women and girls on the other.
Page 462 - ... both for the honour of religion, and the good of the church of Madura, that the Doctors of the Holy Law should be received with distinction the first time they appeared at court ; a circumstance which would enforce the authority of their ministry in the minds of the common people, who obey implicitly the will and inclinations of their sovereign. The Father having thus taken all the prudent...
Page 401 - two sorts of deer that we know nothing of ; we call them sheep, because they somewhat resemble ours in make. The first sort is as large as a calf of one or two years old ; its head is much like that of a stag, and its horns, which are very large, are like those of a ram ; its tail and hair are speckled, and shorter than a stag's, but its hoof is large, round, and cleft as an ox's. I have eaten of these beasts ; their flesh is very tender and delicious. The other sort...
Page 403 - Night, they secure themselves from the Inclemency of the Air, by a kind of Roof made of Leaves and Boughs. During Winter, they withdraw to Caves, which they dig; and there several of them live together, in much the same Manner as wild Beasts. The Men go quite Naked, at least those whom we saw. They wrap or tie round their Heads a Piece of very fine Linen, or a Kind of Network. They wear about their Necks, and sometimes on their Hands, by by way of Ornament, Mother- of-Pearl in various Figures, wrought...
Page viii - No men are better qualified to describe nations and countries than the Jesuits. Their education ; their extensive learning ; the pains they take to acquire the languages of the several regions they visit ; the opportunities they have, by their skill in the arts and sciences, as well as by their insinuating address, to glide into courts where access is often denied to all but themselves; their familiarity with the inhabitants ; their mixing with, and often very long abode 10 Bertram}, hi, p.
Page 218 - The whole is mix'd together, and being left to ferment three Hours in a warm place, they ftir it from time to time ; and three Days after this they have excellent Mead, pure, clarified, and of the Colour of Spanijb white Wine.
Page 179 - ... calls their conversion of the Indians a brave and warlike conversion, remarking that they had changed gladium oris in os gladii. Ludolf, esteemed the best writer of his times on Ethiopia, informs us, that some Portuguese missionaries, after the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, had almost made Roman Catholics of the Ethiopians, and prevailed upon the monarch to acknowledge the pope's supremacy, and to admit a patriarch from Rome. The government also consented to abolish their own rites, and...