Brazil and La Plata: The Personal Record of a CruiseG.P. Putnam & Company, 1856 - 428 páginas |
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Brazil and La Plata: The Personal Record of a Cruise Charles Samuel Stewart Visualização integral - 1856 |
Brazil and La Plata: The Personal Record of a Cruise Charles Samuel Stewart Visualização integral - 1856 |
Brazil and La Plata: The Personal Record of a Cruise Charles Samuel Stewart Visualização integral - 1856 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration American appearance Argentine Argentine Confederation arrival BAYARD TAYLOR beauty beneath Botafogo Brazil Brazilian bright Buenos Ayres Captain McIntosh carriage chapel chargé d'affaires chief church civil color command Commodore McKeever Congress consulate crew Cuba deck distance dress duty Emperor entire feet Flamengo flowers foreign fresh furnished G. P. Putnam gaucho half calf head height hill honor horses hour hundred imperial impression island kind ladies land light lofty magnificent man-of-war mandioca miles milreis Montevideo morning mountains mounted mules negro night officers Organ Mountains ornamented palace Palermo party passed Plata port Portuguese present residence ride Rio de Janeiro road Rosas scarcely scene seen ship shore side soon street thing thousand tion trees troops Urquiza valley walk Washington Washington Irving whole wind
Passagens conhecidas
Página 235 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Página 336 - I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Página 235 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Página 429 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Página 124 - That seems a fragment of some mighty wall Built by the hand that fashioned the old world, To separate its nations, and thrown down When the flood drowned them. To the north a path Conducts you up the narrow battlement. Steep is the western side, shaggy and wild With mossy trees, and pinnacles of flint, And many a hanging crag.
Página 336 - SO let our lips and lives express The holy gospel we profess ; So let our works and virtues shine, To prove the doctrine all divine.
Página 124 - It is a fearful thing To stand upon the beetling verge, and see Where storm and lightning, from that huge gray wall, Have tumbled down vast blocks, and at the base Dashed them in fragments, and to lay thine ear Over the dizzy depth, and hear the sound Of winds that struggle with the woods below, Come up like ocean murmurs.
Página i - How beautiful she is! How fair She lies within those arms, that press Her form with many a soft caress Of tenderness and watchful care!