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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... four daughters , the two oldest grown up , and the prettiest girls of Goya . The father indulged them , and allowed them much of their own way ; the mother was proud of them , told them to hold up their heads with the best in Goya , and ...
... four daughters , the two oldest grown up , and the prettiest girls of Goya . The father indulged them , and allowed them much of their own way ; the mother was proud of them , told them to hold up their heads with the best in Goya , and ...
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... four armed men laid strong hands on my brother , who , amidst the screams of the family , was dragged off as their prisoner to the guard - house . Under the irritating language of Mora much violence was used , and my brother's first ...
... four armed men laid strong hands on my brother , who , amidst the screams of the family , was dragged off as their prisoner to the guard - house . Under the irritating language of Mora much violence was used , and my brother's first ...
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... four bullocks ' skulls for chairs , and we were lighted by a rude earthen lamp , two- thirds filled with tallow and grease , and a thick cot- ton wick stuck therein , which it was necessary every now and then to trim , in order to keep ...
... four bullocks ' skulls for chairs , and we were lighted by a rude earthen lamp , two- thirds filled with tallow and grease , and a thick cot- ton wick stuck therein , which it was necessary every now and then to trim , in order to keep ...
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... four faithful hands , is all in readi- ness alongside my brig , and I will take the helm . Should any difficulty occur in your getting out from this place ( he looked at the door ) , I am ready to shoot through the head the first man ...
... four faithful hands , is all in readi- ness alongside my brig , and I will take the helm . Should any difficulty occur in your getting out from this place ( he looked at the door ) , I am ready to shoot through the head the first man ...
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... four hours . The whole country was inun- dated , and on horseback alone could we hope to get to Buenos Ayres . At first our worthy friend wholly repudiated the notion of his mounting a horse , and treated our proposal of his doing so as ...
... four hours . The whole country was inun- dated , and on horseback alone could we hope to get to Buenos Ayres . At first our worthy friend wholly repudiated the notion of his mounting a horse , and treated our proposal of his doing so as ...
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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.
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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.