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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... Captain Elliot - The Misletoe and Captain Ramsay - The Executive composed of twenty - two Members - Cornelio de Saavedra - Doctor Moreno named Minister to England-- His Death LETTER XXXI . THE AUTHORS TO GENERAL MILLER . · • 1 106 ...
... Captain Elliot - The Misletoe and Captain Ramsay - The Executive composed of twenty - two Members - Cornelio de Saavedra - Doctor Moreno named Minister to England-- His Death LETTER XXXI . THE AUTHORS TO GENERAL MILLER . · • 1 106 ...
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... Captain M'Dougall , who commanded a brig which had been sent up the river by an English house to take down some hides which their agent had collected in the province . All the good things and all the good cooking of Goya were put in ...
... Captain M'Dougall , who commanded a brig which had been sent up the river by an English house to take down some hides which their agent had collected in the province . All the good things and all the good cooking of Goya were put in ...
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... society were rendered more piquant by the originalities of Tuckerman , Quesney , and McDougall . The wine softened Tuckerman's sensibility into many maudlin recol- CAPTAIN M'DOUGALL . 11 lections of his dear Charlotte ,
... society were rendered more piquant by the originalities of Tuckerman , Quesney , and McDougall . The wine softened Tuckerman's sensibility into many maudlin recol- CAPTAIN M'DOUGALL . 11 lections of his dear Charlotte ,
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... CAPTAIN M'DOUGALL . 11 lections of his dear Charlotte , when in a set speech he called on us to drink , as " his toast , " to her health ; Don Pedro's volubility and incomprehen- sibility increased with every glass of claret which he ...
... CAPTAIN M'DOUGALL . 11 lections of his dear Charlotte , when in a set speech he called on us to drink , as " his toast , " to her health ; Don Pedro's volubility and incomprehen- sibility increased with every glass of claret which he ...
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... CAPTAIN M'DOUGALL , enthusiasm and fervour far surpassing the bounds which the soberer Englishman allows to his in- ward movements or his outward demonstrations : so that when M'Dougall found his native strains touched the heart , and ...
... CAPTAIN M'DOUGALL , enthusiasm and fervour far surpassing the bounds which the soberer Englishman allows to his in- ward movements or his outward demonstrations : so that when M'Dougall found his native strains touched the heart , and ...
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