Letters on South America: Comprising Travels on the Banks of the Paraná and Rio de la Plata, Volume 2J. Murray, 1843 - Argentina |
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... Duval - The Old Lover , Mora • Page . 1 LETTER XXV . W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER . Our Imprisonment - The Goya Prison ... Duval's Marriage 19 vi CONTENTS . LETTER XXVI . THE AUTHORS TO GENERAL.
... Duval - The Old Lover , Mora • Page . 1 LETTER XXV . W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER . Our Imprisonment - The Goya Prison ... Duval's Marriage 19 vi CONTENTS . LETTER XXVI . THE AUTHORS TO GENERAL.
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... Thus Rosita was forced , perhaps , into a general flirtation , which she did not like , — her heart was not satisfied , but her vanity was nur- tured and kept alive by general admiration . 6 THE YOUNG LOVER , DUVAL . Among Rosa's "
... Thus Rosita was forced , perhaps , into a general flirtation , which she did not like , — her heart was not satisfied , but her vanity was nur- tured and kept alive by general admiration . 6 THE YOUNG LOVER , DUVAL . Among Rosa's "
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... DUVAL . Among Rosa's " general " admirers , my brother was favourably recognized on one or two occasions that he visited Goya , and I myself , as a neighbour and " general " admirer of good specimens of the fair sex , used now and then ...
... DUVAL . Among Rosa's " general " admirers , my brother was favourably recognized on one or two occasions that he visited Goya , and I myself , as a neighbour and " general " admirer of good specimens of the fair sex , used now and then ...
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... Duval or myself , he entered with a scowl , and sat us out as a matter of course . Our younger lover was very much afraid of Mora ; for the latter , possessing an underhand influence with the co- mandante , Duval in the unsettled , if ...
... Duval or myself , he entered with a scowl , and sat us out as a matter of course . Our younger lover was very much afraid of Mora ; for the latter , possessing an underhand influence with the co- mandante , Duval in the unsettled , if ...
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... Duval , and one or two others , the notables of the port . In addition I had an original countryman of our own , —a Highlander , — one Captain M'Dougall , who commanded a brig which had been sent up the river by an English house to take ...
... Duval , and one or two others , the notables of the port . In addition I had an original countryman of our own , —a Highlander , — one Captain M'Dougall , who commanded a brig which had been sent up the river by an English house to take ...
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Page 81 - Coleccion de Arengas en el foro y Escritos del Dr. Don Mariano Moreno.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
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.