American Quarterly Review, Volume 17Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 - American literature |
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Page 62
... officer , having a few weeks ' leisure , resolved to visit Santiago , the capital of Chile . The usual mode of travelling is in a gig , differing in nothing from that of the United States , save that it is more clumsily and rudely built ...
... officer , having a few weeks ' leisure , resolved to visit Santiago , the capital of Chile . The usual mode of travelling is in a gig , differing in nothing from that of the United States , save that it is more clumsily and rudely built ...
Page 63
... officers , nor the baro- metrical observations of Mr. John Miers , made in October and November of 1819. But we will not do him the injustice to omit the following humorous sketch , which would have become the pencil of Smollet ...
... officers , nor the baro- metrical observations of Mr. John Miers , made in October and November of 1819. But we will not do him the injustice to omit the following humorous sketch , which would have become the pencil of Smollet ...
Page 64
... officers of army and militia . The latter is established upon a plan well adapted for the instruction of the whole population , the men being the armed and exercised every Monday afternoon , in every town 6.1 [ March , Three Years in ...
... officers of army and militia . The latter is established upon a plan well adapted for the instruction of the whole population , the men being the armed and exercised every Monday afternoon , in every town 6.1 [ March , Three Years in ...
Page 66
... officer had an opportunity of observing a specimen of this aristocratical class , " Earth's listless cumberers Born only to consume her liberal fruits . " " The lord of the estate where I was , is a senator , and though his country resi ...
... officer had an opportunity of observing a specimen of this aristocratical class , " Earth's listless cumberers Born only to consume her liberal fruits . " " The lord of the estate where I was , is a senator , and though his country resi ...
Page 68
... officer rarely extended from the coast , fill much the greater part of the book . The description of the port of Callao and the city of Lima is , we had like to have said , fatiguingly minute ; but this might be deemed hypercritical ...
... officer rarely extended from the coast , fill much the greater part of the book . The description of the port of Callao and the city of Lima is , we had like to have said , fatiguingly minute ; but this might be deemed hypercritical ...
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