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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... took them all for 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 ...
... took them all for 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 ...
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... took to four again by travelling in the mails or stages , after I had become a little more knowing in the ways of the road . From Portsmouth I drove to Bath , where I was received by the old gentleman , my relative , with all the ...
... took to four again by travelling in the mails or stages , after I had become a little more knowing in the ways of the road . From Portsmouth I drove to Bath , where I was received by the old gentleman , my relative , with all the ...
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... took me in her arms , and with a flood of tears sobbed aloud , " My own dear boy , " would have made me stake the life I had received from her against a pin that it was no dowager , but my own good mother . Then the old gentleman's ...
... took me in her arms , and with a flood of tears sobbed aloud , " My own dear boy , " would have made me stake the life I had received from her against a pin that it was no dowager , but my own good mother . Then the old gentleman's ...
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... took my departure from Goya in the San José , I had no idea of revisiting the province of Corrientes . Our plan was to establish a house in the capital of the River Plate ; and while my bro- ther went to combine elements in England , I ...
... took my departure from Goya in the San José , I had no idea of revisiting the province of Corrientes . Our plan was to establish a house in the capital of the River Plate ; and while my bro- ther went to combine elements in England , I ...
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... took our time at our halting - places ; set not off very early in the mornings ; slept our siesta after due time given to a good dinner ; halted for the night at an early hour , and at the most comfortable lodgings we could pick out ...
... took our time at our halting - places ; set not off very early in the mornings ; slept our siesta after due time given to a good dinner ; halted for the night at an early hour , and at the most comfortable lodgings we could pick out ...
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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.