Letters on South America: Comprising Travels on the Banks of the Paraná and Rio de la Plata, Volume 2J. Murray, 1843 Collection of letters written to General William Miller, Field Marshall of Peru. |
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... Mora's Chagrin - The Coman- dante's Rebuke of his Uncle - Mora , ashamed of his doings in Goya , takes to his Estancia , and there remains for Life - Duvàl's Marriage • 19 vi CONTENTS . LETTER XXVI . THE AUTHORS TO GENERAL.
... Mora's Chagrin - The Coman- dante's Rebuke of his Uncle - Mora , ashamed of his doings in Goya , takes to his Estancia , and there remains for Life - Duvàl's Marriage • 19 vi CONTENTS . LETTER XXVI . THE AUTHORS TO GENERAL.
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... Mora . London , 1842 . We now hastened , in every way we could , the finale of our Corrientes and Goya adventures , Campbell using double exertions to bring all our outstanding contracts to a close . We succeeded so well that towards ...
... Mora . London , 1842 . We now hastened , in every way we could , the finale of our Corrientes and Goya adventures , Campbell using double exertions to bring all our outstanding contracts to a close . We succeeded so well that towards ...
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... , tyrannical , and , in particular , he had a Spaniard's dislike of foreigners and of foreign influence of every kind . Rosita very naturally preferred her younger and THE OLD LOVER , MORA . 7 more accomplished suitor.
... , tyrannical , and , in particular , he had a Spaniard's dislike of foreigners and of foreign influence of every kind . Rosita very naturally preferred her younger and THE OLD LOVER , MORA . 7 more accomplished suitor.
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... MORA . 7 more accomplished suitor , Francisco Duvàl ; but as true love did never yet run smooth , her father favoured the pretensions of Don Antonio Mora . It was said , indeed , there were certain money transac- tions between the two ...
... MORA . 7 more accomplished suitor , Francisco Duvàl ; but as true love did never yet run smooth , her father favoured the pretensions of Don Antonio Mora . It was said , indeed , there were certain money transac- tions between the two ...
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... Mora's project of marrying Rosita . She , poor thing , got unhappy under this untoward state of the affairs of her heart ; while her father and mother , afraid of driving her to extremities , and yet anxious to see her the wife of the ...
... Mora's project of marrying Rosita . She , poor thing , got unhappy under this untoward state of the affairs of her heart ; while her father and mother , afraid of driving her to extremities , and yet anxious to see her the wife of the ...
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Página 257 - ... and to all nations and men of the globe the justice that governs our votes, declare on the face of the Earth that it is the unanimous and unquestioned will of these provinces to break the forced chains that have linked them to the kings of Spain, to recover the rights of which they were despoiled, and to invest themselves with the high character of a nation free and independent from Ferdinand VII as well as from his successors and metropolis. In consequence they remain in fact and by right in...
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Página 294 - A stranger would think that where beef was to be had for next to nothing, and fish for the trouble of picking it up, there could not be many beggars. He would be mistaken. In Buenos Ayres there are plenty of beggars, but then they beg in style. They almost all ride...
Página 257 - Power who presides over the universe, in the name and by the authority of the people whom we represent...
Página 256 - ... city of San Miguel del Tucuman, on the 9th of July, 1816, the ordinary sitting having terminated, the Congress of the United Provinces continued its former discussion on the great and august object of the independence of the countries which form them: constant and decided was the cry of the whole land for its solemn emancipation from the despotic power of the kings of Spain ; but the representatives, nevertheless, consecrated to so great a...
Página 264 - ... every variety of climate, productions, and people. It rises, toward the west, into a lofty and elevated soil of mountains, of which the bases terminate in immense plains, extending to the Atlantic Ocean. This region, commencing under the tropics of Capricorn, at the foot of the mountains of Jujui, is divided principally into Upper Peru and Rio de la Plata, properly so called. Peru comprehends the provinces of Potosi, Charcas or La Plata, Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra or Puno, Moxos,...