Letters on South America: Comprising Travels on the Banks of the Paraná and Rio de la Plata, Volume 2J. Murray, 1843 - Argentina Collection of letters written to General William Miller, Field Marshall of Peru. |
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... capital , they fixed upon the former as the proper place for their town residence . One of these squires had a nice family : a buxom wife , two or three hobble - de - hoy sons , and three or four daughters , the two oldest grown up ...
... capital , they fixed upon the former as the proper place for their town residence . One of these squires had a nice family : a buxom wife , two or three hobble - de - hoy sons , and three or four daughters , the two oldest grown up ...
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... capital next day . Mr. Fair , who was as good a horseman as he was an indifferent sailor , mounted immediately and put spurs to a mettlesome animal , which , with a snort and a bound , set off at full speed , Mr. E. waving his hand and ...
... capital next day . Mr. Fair , who was as good a horseman as he was an indifferent sailor , mounted immediately and put spurs to a mettlesome animal , which , with a snort and a bound , set off at full speed , Mr. E. waving his hand and ...
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... capital into their rural districts , the famous lines on General Wade's roads in the Highlands will be , no doubt , applied to the South American Wade of the twentieth century- " Had you seen these roads before they were made , You ...
... capital into their rural districts , the famous lines on General Wade's roads in the Highlands will be , no doubt , applied to the South American Wade of the twentieth century- " Had you seen these roads before they were made , You ...
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... capital of the native merchants , through foreign trade , was evidently augmenting ; and whereas the old Spaniards had been a year or two before the only depositaries of the wealth of the country , and of the confidence of 18 68 GREAT ...
... capital of the native merchants , through foreign trade , was evidently augmenting ; and whereas the old Spaniards had been a year or two before the only depositaries of the wealth of the country , and of the confidence of 18 68 GREAT ...
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... capital , and with a knowledge of his pusillanimous conduct and total want of either military or political capacity , that Alzaga , staunch royalist as he was , determined to dethrone the representative of royalty . But he took a fatal ...
... capital , and with a knowledge of his pusillanimous conduct and total want of either military or political capacity , that Alzaga , staunch royalist as he was , determined to dethrone the representative of royalty . But he took a fatal ...
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Page 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.
Page 117 - ... the prejudices which are favourable to tyranny, that if we should unhappily be succeeded by men of sentiments less pure than ourselves, they may not find in the customs of the people any thing to assist them in mocking at their rights. This preamble was followed by a decree, that there should be an absolute, perfect, and identical equality, between the president and the other members of the junta. Four of the articles of this decree show curiously in what manner these men were juggling the people.
Page 257 - ... are guided by justice, do hereby solemnly declare in the face of the world that it is the unanimous and indubitable will of these Provinces to dissolve the intolerable bonds which hitherto connected them with the Kings of Spain, to recover the rights of which they were divested, and to clothe themselves with the high character of a free nation, independent of Kinç Ferdinand VII, his successors, and the mother country.
Page 257 - Power who presides over the universe, in the name and by the authority of the people whom we represent...
Page 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...
Page 247 - Fe, a popular movement took place, which had for its object a system of absolute equality; but it was put down by the bayonets of General Viamont, a blunt and honest soldier, but a great disciplinarian, who had long ruled the inhabitants rather despotically, and who, accustoraed to rigid military subordination, was anything but a forbearing sub-delegate from the metropolis.