Recollections of Four Years in VenezuelaH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 303 pagini |
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... Sometimes a flying report was spread abroad of their entire success , and then I blamed myself for listening to my dissuasive friends . At one time I got in conversation with a man who had lately arrived from the gold - diggings . His ...
... Sometimes a flying report was spread abroad of their entire success , and then I blamed myself for listening to my dissuasive friends . At one time I got in conversation with a man who had lately arrived from the gold - diggings . His ...
Pagina 14
... sometimes among sailors or soldiers , as , having arrived , and their oxen penned , they ad- vance with their double cobija , or cloak - which , inverted , serves as a red or blue one at pleasure- carelessly thrown over their shoulders ...
... sometimes among sailors or soldiers , as , having arrived , and their oxen penned , they ad- vance with their double cobija , or cloak - which , inverted , serves as a red or blue one at pleasure- carelessly thrown over their shoulders ...
Pagina 38
... sometimes caught my trousers so awkwardly , that I was laughingly voted an incumbrance to the others , and ordered to remain at home to keep the fire up , and to practise on the lazy powes , and the snakes coiled up on the trees by the ...
... sometimes caught my trousers so awkwardly , that I was laughingly voted an incumbrance to the others , and ordered to remain at home to keep the fire up , and to practise on the lazy powes , and the snakes coiled up on the trees by the ...
Pagina 45
... Sometimes with more than the present company , oftener with less ; mostly alone . " Your experience must be worth the hearing . " " Not at all ; only the common one of travellers , exposure , privation , fatigue . " " You must have seen ...
... Sometimes with more than the present company , oftener with less ; mostly alone . " Your experience must be worth the hearing . " " Not at all ; only the common one of travellers , exposure , privation , fatigue . " " You must have seen ...
Pagina 47
... sometimes make one sad . " 66 Even ' Not necessarily more so , ” replied M. Edmond , " than to think of ending one's days in a city , and in the midst of one's family . It is not the situa- tion so much as the death , the apparent ...
... sometimes make one sad . " 66 Even ' Not necessarily more so , ” replied M. Edmond , " than to think of ending one's days in a city , and in the midst of one's family . It is not the situa- tion so much as the death , the apparent ...
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Pagina 125 - The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Pagina 35 - Our Place among Infinities. A Series of Essays contrasting our little abode in space and time with the Infinities around us. To which are added Essays on "Astrology,
Pagina 20 - HELLWALD (Baron F. von). The Russians in Central Asia. A Critical Examination, down to the present time, of the Geography and History of Central Asia.
Pagina 47 - AN ESSAY ON THE CULTURE OF THE OBSERVING POWERS OF CHILDREN, especially in connection with the Study of Botany. Edited, with Notes and a Supplement, by Joseph Payne, FCP, Author of ' Lectures- on the Science and Art of Education,
Pagina 47 - YOUMANS (Eliza A.). An Essay on the Culture of the Observing Powers of Children, especially in connection with the Study of Botany. Edited, with Notes and a Supplement, by Joseph Payne, FCP, Author of " Lectures on the Science and Art of Education,
Pagina 25 - On Cephalization ; or, Head-Characters in the Gradation and Progress of Life. Prof. SW JOHNSON, MA On the Nutrition of Plants. Prof. AUSTIN FLINT, Jr. MD The Nervous System and its Relation to the Bodily Functions.
Pagina 34 - William Godwin : His Friends and Contemporaries. With Portraits and Facsimiles of the Handwriting of Godwin and his Wife. 2 vols. Square post 8vo. Cloth, price 28*.
Pagina 18 - Published by Authority, and in accordance with Official Documents. Translated from the German by Colonel G. Graham, VC, CB, RE With 6 large Maps.
Pagina 11 - World : a Simple Account of Man in Early Times. Sixth Edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 3$. A Special Edition for Schools. Price is. The Childhood of Religions. Including a Simple Account of the Birth and Growth of Myths and Legends.
Pagina 4 - Service and their rdle in War, of its Mode of Fighting, &c., &c. Translated from the Corrected Edition, by permission of the Author, by Colonel Edward Newdigate. Demy 8vo. Cloth, price 5$.