Lives of Celebrated American IndiansJ.M. Allen, 1844 - 315 páginas |
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... turned his attention to the business of legislation . By his instructions the various relations in private life were established , and the duties resulting from them prescribed with exactness and propriety . Thus barbarous tribes were ...
... turned his attention to the business of legislation . By his instructions the various relations in private life were established , and the duties resulting from them prescribed with exactness and propriety . Thus barbarous tribes were ...
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... turned over the leaves , and put it to his ear . ' This , " said he , with a disdainful smile , " tells me nothing ; " and contemptuously threw it on the ground . Herrera asserts that he heightened the insult by requesting Pizarro to ...
... turned over the leaves , and put it to his ear . ' This , " said he , with a disdainful smile , " tells me nothing ; " and contemptuously threw it on the ground . Herrera asserts that he heightened the insult by requesting Pizarro to ...
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... turning this to account , with a view to the recovery of his liberty . He opened a negotiation with Pizarro for his ransom , and offered to fill his apartment , which was twenty - two feet long and sixteen wide , with vessels of gold as ...
... turning this to account , with a view to the recovery of his liberty . He opened a negotiation with Pizarro for his ransom , and offered to fill his apartment , which was twenty - two feet long and sixteen wide , with vessels of gold as ...
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... turning this event to further advantage . He selected a like number of his bravest soldiers , directed them to conceal their weapons in the bundles of grass , and march to the fortress in the guise of the friendly Indians . Having ...
... turning this event to further advantage . He selected a like number of his bravest soldiers , directed them to conceal their weapons in the bundles of grass , and march to the fortress in the guise of the friendly Indians . Having ...
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... turned the siege into a blockade . The garrison made many sallies , but without any success . Finding themselves in danger of starving , they decided to evacuate the place and retire to Puren . At midnight , they mounted their horses ...
... turned the siege into a blockade . The garrison made many sallies , but without any success . Finding themselves in danger of starving , they decided to evacuate the place and retire to Puren . At midnight , they mounted their horses ...
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admiration afterwards Americans appears Araucanians arms army Atahualpa attack battle beautiful became Black Hawk Bonaparte Brant British brother Burke Burns Byron Caupolican Cervantes character chief command Cortez Cuzco death Don Quixote emperor enemy English eyes father feelings fell fire force gave genius Göthe hand head heart honor horses hostile Huascar Huayna Capac hundred iards Ietan immediately Inca Indians inhabitants Johnson king land Lautaro lived Lord Manco Capac manner Mayta Capac ment Mexicans Mexico mind Montezuma Napoleon never noble officers Opechancanough party peace person Peru Peruvians Philip Pocahontas poems poet poetry Pontiac possession Powhatan prisoner Quetzalcoatl received remarkable replied river savage scene Scott sent Shakspere soldiers soon Soto Spaniards Spanish spirit Tecumseh thou thought thousand tion told took town tribes troops Tupac Tupac Amaru Vitachuco warriors whole wife Xolotl young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 73 - And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud...
Página 187 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering Worth is...
Página 231 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace; but do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 73 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder!
Página 184 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
Página 72 - Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing Which warns me, with its stillness, to forsake Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring. This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
Página 212 - Ah, sir, I was mad and violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for frolic. I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit; so I disregarded all power and all authority.
Página 186 - Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Página 166 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Página 72 - Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires,— 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.