Blackwood's Magazine, Том 62W. Blackwood, 1847 |
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... thousand castellanos , the commercial value of which was equi- valent to more than half a million sterling . This from one village , of no great size or importance . It was a handsome earnest of future spoils , and of the mountain of ...
... thousand castellanos , the commercial value of which was equi- valent to more than half a million sterling . This from one village , of no great size or importance . It was a handsome earnest of future spoils , and of the mountain of ...
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... thousand men , had landed with the sole purpose of seeking an ami- cable conference . Instead of a peace- ful parley , they found themselves forced into a very unequal fight . " It might have gone hard with the Spaniards , hotly pressed ...
... thousand men , had landed with the sole purpose of seeking an ami- cable conference . Instead of a peace- ful parley , they found themselves forced into a very unequal fight . " It might have gone hard with the Spaniards , hotly pressed ...
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... thousand men , tranquilly awaiting the appear- ance of the eight - score intruders who thus madly ran into the ... thousands , their hearts failed them , and many were of opinion to abandon the original plan and take the road to Cuzco ...
... thousand men , tranquilly awaiting the appear- ance of the eight - score intruders who thus madly ran into the ... thousands , their hearts failed them , and many were of opinion to abandon the original plan and take the road to Cuzco ...
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... thousand inhabitants had deserted the town on his ap- proach , Pizarro beheld before him " a white cloud of pavilions , covering the ground as thick as snow - flakes , for the space apparently of several miles . " In front of the tents ...
... thousand inhabitants had deserted the town on his ap- proach , Pizarro beheld before him " a white cloud of pavilions , covering the ground as thick as snow - flakes , for the space apparently of several miles . " In front of the tents ...
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fifty thousand men . These halted at a short distance from the town ; the Inca began to pitch his tents , and sent word to Pizarro that he had postponed his visit to the following morning . The Spanish leader deprecated this change of ...
fifty thousand men . These halted at a short distance from the town ; the Inca began to pitch his tents , and sent word to Pizarro that he had postponed his visit to the following morning . The Spanish leader deprecated this change of ...
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Сторінка 389 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
Сторінка 152 - Through the high wood echoing shrill. Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedgerow elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state...
Сторінка 132 - ... presuming to measure how much or how little of historical matter these legends may contain. If the reader blame me for not assisting him to determine this— if he ask me why I do not undraw the curtain and disclose the picture — I reply in the words of the painter Zeuxis, when the same question was addressed to him, on exhibiting his masterpiece of imitative art :
Сторінка 124 - I am confident that the three right honorable gentlemen opposite, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the late President of the Board of Trade, will all with one voice answer "No." And why not? "Because," say they, "it will injure the revenue.
Сторінка 546 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences, we give and take, we remit some rights that we may enjoy others, and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Сторінка 138 - Deiphobus in the under-world ; if we are asked whether there was not really some such historical Trojan war as this, our answer must be, that as the possibility of it cannot be denied, so neither can the reality of it be affirmed.
Сторінка 154 - A noble race ! but they are gone, With their old forests wide and deep, And we have built our homes upon Fields where their generations sleep. Their fountains slake our thirst at noon, Upon their fields our harvest waves, Our lovers woo beneath their moon — Then let us spare, at least, their graves ! MIDSUMMER.
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Сторінка 250 - To what then, it may be asked, does this statement amount ? Merely to this, that the mind is so formed that certain impressions produced on our organs of sense by external objects, are followed by correspondent sensations, and that these sensations (which have no more resemblance to the qualities of matter than the words of a...