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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... Ladies - Waltzing in the Forenoon - Fuentes ' Impatience - Entertainment and Departure - Pass through Santa Fé , and arrive at Goya- Pass on to Corrientes 48 LETTER XLIX . W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER . Mr. and the Misses Postlethwaite ...
... Ladies - Waltzing in the Forenoon - Fuentes ' Impatience - Entertainment and Departure - Pass through Santa Fé , and arrive at Goya- Pass on to Corrientes 48 LETTER XLIX . W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER . Mr. and the Misses Postlethwaite ...
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... ladies and gentlemen , even after the waiters had laid my table with plate and crystal over a damask table - cloth , and after a pretty , captivating , and genteel fair one , with rosy cheeks and auburn curls , a plated candlestick and ...
... ladies and gentlemen , even after the waiters had laid my table with plate and crystal over a damask table - cloth , and after a pretty , captivating , and genteel fair one , with rosy cheeks and auburn curls , a plated candlestick and ...
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... lady and one rather petite were alike unknown ; and two females of about eighteen and twenty , who were hurrying down stairs , were perfect incognitas . An old gentleman in his dressing - gown , bent down with infirmity and a grievous ...
... lady and one rather petite were alike unknown ; and two females of about eighteen and twenty , who were hurrying down stairs , were perfect incognitas . An old gentleman in his dressing - gown , bent down with infirmity and a grievous ...
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... lady took me in her arms , and with a flood of tears sobbed aloud , " My own dear boy , " would have made me stake the ... ladies I was sure that two were my sisters ; but which two ( for I had no more sisters ) I could not tell all the ...
... lady took me in her arms , and with a flood of tears sobbed aloud , " My own dear boy , " would have made me stake the ... ladies I was sure that two were my sisters ; but which two ( for I had no more sisters ) I could not tell all the ...
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... ladies retired to make their toilets ; and the old gentleman , rather fas- tidious at his , went to show that he had not for- gotten his youthful days . The old lady alone remained ; and her anxiety was equally divided between getting ...
... ladies retired to make their toilets ; and the old gentleman , rather fas- tidious at his , went to show that he had not for- gotten his youthful days . The old lady alone remained ; and her anxiety was equally divided between getting ...
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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.