Mexico, picturesque, political, progressive. Mary Elizabeth Blake

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       Mary Elizabeth Blake, Margaret Frances Sullivan

      Mexico, picturesque, political, progressive

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4064066443559

Table of Contents

       Into the Sun Land

       Glimpses of a New World

       The City of Mexico

       Through Lanes and Highways

       On the Southern Slope

       Shrines and Pilgrimages

       Literary Mexico: A Group of Novels

       Blossoms of Verse

       From Conquest to Independence

       Constitution and Government

       Religion and Education

       Revenue and its Application

      PART I

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       PICTURESQUE MEXICO

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chapter		page
I —	Into the Sun Land	7
II —	Glimpses of a New World	27
III —	The City of Mexico	54
IV —	Through Lanes and Highways	76
V —	On the Southern Slope	95
VI —	Shrines and Pilgrimages	117
VII —	Literary Mexico: A Group of Novels	133
VIII —	Blossoms of Verse	159
PART IITable of Contents POLITICAL AND PROGRESSIVE MEXICO Table of Contents
IX —	From Conquest to Independence	173
X —	Constitution and Government	191
XI —	Religion and Education	199
XII —	Revenue and its Application	213

      Into the Sun Land

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      MEXICO

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       PICTURESQUE POLITICAL PROGRESSIVE

      CHAPTER I

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      INTO THE SUN LAND

      In these days, when a passion for travelling has become one of the manias of American civilization, and people seek the excitement of novelty in despite of difficulty and danger, it is not strange to find that fashion so tempers fancy as to set the tides of desire flowing in special directions, while equal or greater attractions are left high and dry outside the current of sentimental regard. Thus it comes to pass, that, where thousands cross the seas to gain a more or less superficial acquaintance with the main points of European scenery, one could reckon within the limits of as many hundreds those who become in any degree familiar with the wonderful beauty ​which Nature has lavished upon our own land. It is evident that many instincts of love, of remembrance, and of affection naturally go to increase pilgrimages to the shrines of the Old World. But, when every allowance has been made, there still remains an unaccountable lack of curiosity and knowledge concerning that portion of the