Letters on South America: Comprising Travels on the Banks of the Paraná and Rio de la Plata, Volume 3J. Murray, 1843 Collection of letters written to General William Miller, Field Marshall of Peru. |
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... hands , contended for the pleasure of conduct- ing me to their respective houses . I desired to be led to that which was pointed out to me as the largest and best . My first impression on entering it was that I had certainly mistaken ...
... hands , contended for the pleasure of conduct- ing me to their respective houses . I desired to be led to that which was pointed out to me as the largest and best . My first impression on entering it was that I had certainly mistaken ...
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... hand , had conducted me to a capacious room , which she told me was my bed - room . It was curtained , festooned , carpeted , and furnished with a bed of state . Everything was richer and better than any- thing I had seen in the houses ...
... hand , had conducted me to a capacious room , which she told me was my bed - room . It was curtained , festooned , carpeted , and furnished with a bed of state . Everything was richer and better than any- thing I had seen in the houses ...
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... hands upon the doubloons of the new arrival from South America . I found my living and society , though both agree- able , yet rather expensive ; and as I had now spent a month in idleness and frivolous dissipation , gained thus a ...
... hands upon the doubloons of the new arrival from South America . I found my living and society , though both agree- able , yet rather expensive ; and as I had now spent a month in idleness and frivolous dissipation , gained thus a ...
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... hand , from the company of your purse- proud man of business , and his more stately spouse . They have between them more airs to play off upon their humbler guests , more ostentatious display , and more tiresome egotism , all tending to ...
... hand , from the company of your purse- proud man of business , and his more stately spouse . They have between them more airs to play off upon their humbler guests , more ostentatious display , and more tiresome egotism , all tending to ...
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... hand passed in rapid suc- cession from the knocker to the bell , and back again from the bell to the knocker , brought no one to my relief . The postilion thought that a little delay in my visit would have answered all purposes A SCOTCH ...
... hand passed in rapid suc- cession from the knocker to the bell , and back again from the bell to the knocker , brought no one to my relief . The postilion thought that a little delay in my visit would have answered all purposes A SCOTCH ...
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Abipon agreeable Andres Andresito APPENDIX arms army arrived Artigas Ascencion attack azotea Balcarce Banda Oriental battle of Chacabuco beautiful boat brother Buenos Ayreans Buenos Ayres Cabildo Cabral cacique called Campbell capital Captain carnival Chacabuco Chile Chili Colonel commanded commenced Correntinos Corrientes despatch dinner Don Antonio Don Ysidoro Doña Mariquita enemy England English Escalada Fair father favourite foreign friends gallant gauchos gentleman Government governor Goya head honour horses hour Indians inhabitants José ladies London looked Manuel de Sarratea married Maypo ment Mexias MILLER Miss Postlethwaite Monte Video never occasion officers Oromi Paraguay party passed patriots Peru poor province Pueyrredon Quinta residence Riglos River Plate Rolon royalists San Martin Santa Fé Sarratea sister society Soler South America Spaniards Spanish street Talcahuano tertulias tion took town Tuckerman Upper Peru vessel W. P. R. LETTER whole
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Página 129 - Coro Sean eternos los laureles Que supimos conseguir; Coronados de gloria vivamos, O juremos con gloria morir...
Página 128 - ... a salute was fired from the guns of the fort ; and the children of the various schools, all neatly dressed, assembled in the plaza, where they were formed round the
Página 129 - Old, mortales, el grito Sagrado Libertad ! Libertad ! Libertad ! Old el ruido de rotas Cadenas Ved entrono la noble igualdad!
Página 215 - He could not persuade himself that it was not a continuation of his dreams.