Letters on South America: Comprising Travels on the Banks of the Paraná and Rio de la Plata, Volume 2J. Murray, 1843 |
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... old Spaniards had been a year or two before the only depositaries of the wealth of the country , and of the confidence of 68 GREAT CHANGE IN BUENOS AYRES . foreigners , they 67.
... old Spaniards had been a year or two before the only depositaries of the wealth of the country , and of the confidence of 68 GREAT CHANGE IN BUENOS AYRES . foreigners , they 67.
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... old regime , of rising in the world , and only thought of the best means of raising money , to be spent in ... Spaniards were fast fading into insignificance , or in a course of passive amal- gamation with the new order of things ; the ...
... old regime , of rising in the world , and only thought of the best means of raising money , to be spent in ... Spaniards were fast fading into insignificance , or in a course of passive amal- gamation with the new order of things ; the ...
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... original plan of sketching , as we go along , the historical and political events of those sections of South America ... Spanish American revolutions , we have been able to find no account of any kind . * * Don Manuel Moreno's volume ...
... original plan of sketching , as we go along , the historical and political events of those sections of South America ... Spanish American revolutions , we have been able to find no account of any kind . * * Don Manuel Moreno's volume ...
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... old Spaniards them- selves , under the orders of one whose irreconcilable and undaunted hatred of the rebellious South Americans led to a fatal termination of his own career . This fine old royalist was Don Martin de Alzaga , the ...
... old Spaniards them- selves , under the orders of one whose irreconcilable and undaunted hatred of the rebellious South Americans led to a fatal termination of his own career . This fine old royalist was Don Martin de Alzaga , the ...
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... old Spaniards ; for the energy of his character gave life and animation to tamer spirits ; and the indomitable courage with which he fought against all obstacles in his way , and the success with which he overcame them , gave to his ...
... old Spaniards ; for the energy of his character gave life and animation to tamer spirits ; and the indomitable courage with which he fought against all obstacles in his way , and the success with which he overcame them , gave to his ...
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Página 81 - Coleccion de Arengas en el foro y Escritos del Dr. Don Mariano Moreno.
Página 263 - Clay, of the house of representatives of the United States, by stating that, " The Republic of the United Provinces of South America comprehends, with some exceptions, the same territory as the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata, which was established in 1778 ; it extends from the 16th to the 45th degree of south latitude, [nearly ten degrees north of Magellan's Strait,] from the left margin of the Lake Titicaca on the north, to the coast of Patagonia on the south.
Página 264 - Peru comprehends the provinces of Potosi, Charcas or La Plata, Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra or Puno, Moxos, and Chiquitos ; and the...
Página 291 - Ayres than the carts and carters. The former are vehicles with large wooden axles, and most enormous wheels, so high that the spokes are about eight feet in diameter, towering above both horses and driver ; he rides one of the animals.
Página 291 - The first sight you have of these clumsy vehicles is on your landing. They drive off like so many bathing-machines to your hotel, a dozen carters, just like a dozen porters here, struggling in rude contention for the preference in carrying ashore passengers and their luggage.
Página 264 - ... America, comprehends, with some exceptions, the same territory as the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata, which was established in 1778. It extends from the 16th to the 45th degree of south latitude; from the left margin of the lake Titicaca, which lies between the two cordilleras of Peru, on the north, and to the coast of Patagonia on the south.
Página 251 - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno ; noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est.