What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian IslandsD. Appleton, 1865 - 632 páginas |
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... hills and valleys be- neath or beyond , clad in verdure and constantly developing some new and lovely combination of light and shade , is so fair to look on , so refreshing to the water - wearied eye , so typical of the brief and ...
... hills and valleys be- neath or beyond , clad in verdure and constantly developing some new and lovely combination of light and shade , is so fair to look on , so refreshing to the water - wearied eye , so typical of the brief and ...
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... hill of five hundred and forty feet height called " Cerro Ancon , " which commands the town and defences , and being unfortified , would be quickly occupied by an observing enemy . The city proper , embracing the parish of San Felipe ...
... hill of five hundred and forty feet height called " Cerro Ancon , " which commands the town and defences , and being unfortified , would be quickly occupied by an observing enemy . The city proper , embracing the parish of San Felipe ...
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... hill of the Buccaneers , the notorious English freebooter , Sir Henry Morgan , on his way from the mouth of the Chagres River across the Isthmus , first gazed on the spires of old Panama , when , in 1669 , he executed his long ...
... hill of the Buccaneers , the notorious English freebooter , Sir Henry Morgan , on his way from the mouth of the Chagres River across the Isthmus , first gazed on the spires of old Panama , when , in 1669 , he executed his long ...
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... hills of exquisite out- line ; while loftier heights , faintly seen in the distance , showed where the snowy Cordillera of the Southern Continent was ex- tending its lower spurs , like the taper fingers of a polished arm , to receive ...
... hills of exquisite out- line ; while loftier heights , faintly seen in the distance , showed where the snowy Cordillera of the Southern Continent was ex- tending its lower spurs , like the taper fingers of a polished arm , to receive ...
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... adjacent province of Piura , of which Paita is the sea- port — a desert on which rain rarely falls , and dews never — you may imagine the depths and drifts of sand blown from the neighboring hills , through which the pedestrian must wade ;
... adjacent province of Piura , of which Paita is the sea- port — a desert on which rain rarely falls , and dews never — you may imagine the depths and drifts of sand blown from the neighboring hills , through which the pedestrian must wade ;
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Palavras e frases frequentes
adobe altar American Arequipa Arica baths beautiful Bolivia building built Caldera Callao called capital Cerro Chañarcillo charity Chile Chilean church civilization Coast Range Cobija Concepcion copper Coquimbo Cordillera crossed Cuesta distance dollars earth east feet high fifty five foot foreign four Government guano hacienda harbor height hills horse hospital houses human hundred feet Indian inhabitants interior island Islay labor land less looking Maipú Mapocho River Melipilla ment miles mountain natives nature nearly negro night Nuble observed ocean Paita Panama passed passengers Peru Peruvian Pisco Pizarro plaza port postilion present province Province of Talca race railroad Rancagua religious residence rich river road rock roof Santiago scene seen ship shore side Sierra Spaniards Spanish stands steamer stone stream streets Talca Talcahuano thousand tion town traveller Tumbes valley Valparaiso voyage walls winds
Passagens conhecidas
Página 618 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Página 38 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear : Those days are gone — but beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy...
Página 545 - For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Página 62 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?
Página 144 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal ? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege...
Página 49 - Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies that we, surely trusting in thy defence may not fear the power of any adversaries, through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Página 392 - The morn is up again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, — And glowing into day...
Página 213 - Wondrous truths, and manifold as wondrous, God hath written in those stars above ; But not less in the bright flowerets under us Stands the revelation of His love.
Página 216 - O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below Fair gardens, shining streams, with ranks Of golden melons on their banks, More golden where the sunlight falls ; — Gay lizards...
Página 482 - Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime — Shrine of all saints and temple of all gods, From Jove to Jesus — spared and blest by time; Looking tranquillity, while falls or nods Arch, empire, each thing round thee, and man plods His way through thorns to ashes — glorious dome ! Shalt thou not last? Time's scythe and tyrants' rods Shiver upon thee — sanctuary and home Of art and piety — Pantheon ! — pride of Rome ! CXLVII.