Edward Burnett Tylor
Edward Burnett Tylor
Sir Edward Burnett Tylorwas an English anthropologist, the founder of cultural anthropology...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth2 October 1832
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The Indian fig trees sent down from every branch suckers, like smooth strings, which rooted themselves in the ground to draw up more water.
english-scientist plateau
The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.
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Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.
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Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.
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Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.
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One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.
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When we had been a week or two in the city of Mexico, we decided upon making an excursion to the great silver mining district of the Real del Monte.
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If you look at the arms of the Mexican Republic, on a passport or a silver dollar, you will see a representation of a rock surrounded by water.
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The Cathedral, for instance, is really a very grand building when seen from a little distance, with its two high towers and its cupola behind.
humanity unbroken lasts
Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.
sunset littles towns
At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.
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We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.
strong children people
Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.
lying snow valleys
Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.