Letters of a TravellerD. Appleton, 1859 - 277 páginas |
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... half starved , and begged him to intercede with the Director in her behalf . When the matter was afterwards mentioned to the bookkeeper he said that there was no end to the complaints of these people , and that the more they got the ...
... half starved , and begged him to intercede with the Director in her behalf . When the matter was afterwards mentioned to the bookkeeper he said that there was no end to the complaints of these people , and that the more they got the ...
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... half draped with wild herbage . I fear I have tired the readers of this letter , as I have done myself , with this recital ; but I hope that I have given them some idea of the variety , the pertinacity and the suc- cess of Swiss ...
... half draped with wild herbage . I fear I have tired the readers of this letter , as I have done myself , with this recital ; but I hope that I have given them some idea of the variety , the pertinacity and the suc- cess of Swiss ...
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... half - way up the mountain sides , and patches of buckwheat , now in bloom , whitening almost their very crests . At Geneva I fell in with an English gentleman , who has been botanizing industriously on the continent for seven years ...
... half - way up the mountain sides , and patches of buckwheat , now in bloom , whitening almost their very crests . At Geneva I fell in with an English gentleman , who has been botanizing industriously on the continent for seven years ...
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... half at Nîmes , in the comfortable and spacious Hotel du Luxembourg - Nimes , at this season , quiet , dull and silent as the vast interior of its own grand Roman amphitheatre . Its principal commerce at the moment seemed to consist in ...
... half at Nîmes , in the comfortable and spacious Hotel du Luxembourg - Nimes , at this season , quiet , dull and silent as the vast interior of its own grand Roman amphitheatre . Its principal commerce at the moment seemed to consist in ...
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... half seen through the mists , the white summit of the Maladetta . Our guide gave us the etymology of the name in this legend : " Our Saviour , " said he , " was passing over the mountain , when he met with a shepherd and his dog . The ...
... half seen through the mists , the white summit of the Maladetta . Our guide gave us the etymology of the name in this legend : " Our Saviour , " said he , " was passing over the mountain , when he met with a shepherd and his dog . The ...
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Página 279 - Russia. Trans, from the French. Thick 12mo. Cloth, 1 25 Dew's Digest of Ancient and Modern History. Svo. Cloth, 2 00 Don Quixote de La Mancha.
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...
Página 279 - Captain Canot ; or, Twenty Years of a Slaver's Life, Edited by Brantz Mayer. 1 vol. 12mo. Illustrated. Cloth, 1 25 Chapman's Instructions to Young Marksmen on the Improved American Rifle, 16mo.
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 |