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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... - Sur- rounding Scenery - Edinburgh Castle - Holyrood House or Palace - Neighbourhood of the Abbey - The New Town of Edinburgh - Inhabitants of the New Town - Their Society- A Bon - Mot 15 ii CONTENTS . LETTER XLVI J. P. R. TO GENERAL.
... - Sur- rounding Scenery - Edinburgh Castle - Holyrood House or Palace - Neighbourhood of the Abbey - The New Town of Edinburgh - Inhabitants of the New Town - Their Society- A Bon - Mot 15 ii CONTENTS . LETTER XLVI J. P. R. TO GENERAL.
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... Inhabitants of the New Town - Their Society - A Bon - Mot . London , 1842 . WHEN I tell you that my preceding letter , this one , and another will contain all I have for the present to say on England and Scotland , you will not expect ...
... Inhabitants of the New Town - Their Society - A Bon - Mot . London , 1842 . WHEN I tell you that my preceding letter , this one , and another will contain all I have for the present to say on England and Scotland , you will not expect ...
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... inhabitants all around , and as I remembered that these had been the residences and purlieus of the highest nobility , I could not but think , that the removal of a king , -his court , his nobles , and retainers , —is a sore calamity to ...
... inhabitants all around , and as I remembered that these had been the residences and purlieus of the highest nobility , I could not but think , that the removal of a king , -his court , his nobles , and retainers , —is a sore calamity to ...
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... inhabitants and those of the upper regions being effected by dark and inter- minable flights of stone stairs , conducting you all the way down into " flats , " or floors , which are the abodes of wretched females , who thus seek to hide ...
... inhabitants and those of the upper regions being effected by dark and inter- minable flights of stone stairs , conducting you all the way down into " flats , " or floors , which are the abodes of wretched females , who thus seek to hide ...
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... INHABITANTS OF THE NEW TOWN . 29 with their ladies , equipages , and footmen . Unable to make a show in London , the laird is content for a season to be the leader of the ton in Edinburgh : and most agreeable people the better class of ...
... INHABITANTS OF THE NEW TOWN . 29 with their ladies , equipages , and footmen . Unable to make a show in London , the laird is content for a season to be the leader of the ton in Edinburgh : and most agreeable people the better class of ...
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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 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.