Letters of a TravellerD. Appleton, 1859 - 277 páginas |
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... Four Corners ' Tavern . - Good Fortune . - A Railway . - Civility of the Superintendents .--- Arrival at Alicante . - The American Consul , Mr. Leach . - Quijano.— His Humane Labors , Death , Funeral , and Monument .. LETTER XVI ...
... Four Corners ' Tavern . - Good Fortune . - A Railway . - Civility of the Superintendents .--- Arrival at Alicante . - The American Consul , Mr. Leach . - Quijano.— His Humane Labors , Death , Funeral , and Monument .. LETTER XVI ...
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... four weeks the dusty waste was transformed into a fresh and beau- tiful garden . I went to see it the other day - a hot day for the season . We passed from the entrance to the garden 12 TROPICAL PLANTS . through an alley embowered with ...
... four weeks the dusty waste was transformed into a fresh and beau- tiful garden . I went to see it the other day - a hot day for the season . We passed from the entrance to the garden 12 TROPICAL PLANTS . through an alley embowered with ...
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... children , who are of too tender an age to work . They must be subsisted , and their subsistence is a heavy charge . " There are now about four hundred families in the colony , POPULATION OF THE COLONY . 21 numbering two thousand six.
... children , who are of too tender an age to work . They must be subsisted , and their subsistence is a heavy charge . " There are now about four hundred families in the colony , POPULATION OF THE COLONY . 21 numbering two thousand six.
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... four years as Geneva in eight . It seems to have caught the rage of demo- lition and reconstruction from Paris . A broad street , like one of the Boulevards of the metropolis , running from the Place de Bellecour to the hills , has been ...
... four years as Geneva in eight . It seems to have caught the rage of demo- lition and reconstruction from Paris . A broad street , like one of the Boulevards of the metropolis , running from the Place de Bellecour to the hills , has been ...
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... four years since , and almost wished it were December again . Yet , even amidst this quiet , some new buildings were going up at Nîmes several elegant houses and a church of a remarkably graceful Gothic model , the light and airy shafts ...
... four years since , and almost wished it were December again . Yet , even amidst this quiet , some new buildings were going up at Nîmes several elegant houses and a church of a remarkably graceful Gothic model , the light and airy shafts ...
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Alameda Algiers Alicante Arab Bagnères de Bigorre Basque Bayonne beautiful Briviesca broad brought building built bull bull-fight Burgos called CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS caps carriage Cartagena Castile Castilian cathedral chapel chulos church cloak Cloth coachman color crowd dark Don Pedro donkeys dressed entered eyes floor French fruit Full calf gentleman Gilt edges green Grenada ground groves Half calf hill horses hour houses journey ladies letter lofty look Luchon lying Madrid Malaga massive Miranda de Ebro Moorish morning mosque mountains mules Murcia night o'clock Old Castile Oran party passed planted pleasant priests provinces Pyrenees road rocks Rome rooms rows San Sebastian seats seemed seen shouted side sight Spain Spaniards Spanish steamer stone stood streets summit Swiss thing told took town travelling trees Urumea valley village Vitoria walk walls wind woman women young
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Página 149 - Of the people of the country I ought to carry away a most favorable impression, if such an impression could be produced by unwearied endeavors, with apparently no motive but simple benevolence, to make our stay agreeable. The American minister, Mr. Dodge, is very attentive to the convenience of his countrymen, and a great favorite -with such of them as come to Madrid. He is on excellent terms also with the people of the country, and has done, what I think few of his predecessors have taken the trouble...
Página 257 - Men who would never have thought of buying a picture or a statue at home, are infected by the contagion of the place the moment they arrive. No talk of the money market here; no discussion of any public measure; no conversation respecting new enterprises, and the ebb and flow of trade; no price current, except of marble and canvas; all the talk is of art and artists. The rich man who, at home, is contented with mirrors and rosewood, is here initiated into a new set of ideas, gets a taste, and orders...
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Página 175 - The only narcotic in which the Spaniards indulge to any extent is tobacco, in favor of which I have nothing to say; yet it should be remembered, in extenuation, that they are tempted to this habit by the want of something else to do; that they husband their cigarritos by smoking with great deliberation, making a little tobacco go a great way, and that they dilute its narcotic fumes with those of the paper in which it is folded. With regard to the use of wine, I can confirm all that has been said...
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Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth ... Gifra-Adroher, Pere Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
Between History and Romance: Travel Writing on Spain in the Early Nineteenth ... Gifra-Adroher, Pere Vista previa limitada - 2000 |