A View of South America and Mexico: Comprising Their History, the Political Condition, Geography, Agriculture, Commerce, &c. of the Republics of Mexico, Guatemala, Columbia, Peru, the United Provinces of South America and Chili, with a Complete History of the Revolution in Each of These Independent States, Հատորներ 1-2H. Huntington, Jun., 1826 - 239 էջ |
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A View of South-America and Mexico: Comprising Their History ..., Հատորներ 1-2 John Milton Niles Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1825 |
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A View of South-America and Mexico: Comprising Their History ..., Հատորներ 1-2 John Milton Niles Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1825 |
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Էջ 2 - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Էջ 90 - With regard to the hopes you entertain of raising the spirits of those persons, with whom you are in correspondence, toward encouraging the inhabitants to resist the oppressive authority of their government, I have little more to say, than that they may be certain that, whenever they are in that disposition, they may receive, at your hands, all the...
Էջ 40 - I have done,' said he, addressing himself to the Spanish general, ' what became a monarch. I have defended my people to the last extremity. Nothing now remains but to die. Take this dagger,' laying his hand on one which Cortes wore, ' plant it in my breast, and put an end to a life which can no longer be of use.
Էջ 28 - Cortes to the quarters which he had prepared for his reception, and immediately took leave of him with a politeness not unworthy of a court more refined. ' You are now,' says he, ' with your brothers in your own house; refresh yourselves after your fatigue, and be happy until I return ".' The place allotted to the Spaniards for their lodging was a house built by the father of Montezuma.
Էջ 49 - Valverde, reaching out to him his breviary. The inca opened it eagerly, and turning over the leaves, lifted it to his ear : ' This,' says he, ' is silent ; it tells me nothing ;' and threw it with disdain to the ground.
Էջ 106 - ... of the article. In Mexico there is an additional duty of 10 1-2 per cent, on goods sent to that city ; in other towns there is an internal duty, which is not uniform ; in some it does not exceed 4 per cent, on the amount of actual sales. The expense of transportation of goods from Tampico to Mexico is from one dollar and twenty-five cents to two dollars and fifty cents per twentyfive pounds ; and from Vera Cruz to Mexico, from one to two dollars per twenty-five pounds. A mule carries from three...
Էջ 107 - In the civil war existing between Spain and the Spanish Provinces in this hemisphere the greatest care has been taken to enforce the laws intended to preserve an impartial neutrality. Our ports have continued to be equally open to both parties and on the same conditions, and our citizens have been equally restrained from interfering in favor of either to the prejudice of the other.
Էջ 144 - I have fulfilled the sacred promise which I made to Peru : I have witnessed the assembly of its representatives : the enemy's force threatens the independence of no place that wishes to be free, and possesses the means of being so. A numerous army, under the direction of warlike chiefs, is ready to march in a few days to put an end to the war. Nothing is left for me to do, but to offer you my sincerest thanks, and to promise, that if the liberties of the Peruvians shall ever be attacked, I shall...
Էջ 220 - Guaytecas, in which is situated the Archipelago of Chiloe. Few countries are so well supplied with rivers as Chili. Lying at the foot of the Andes, it naturally receives the waters produced by the melting of that immense body of snow which annually falls upon those mountains. There are more than 100 rivers of considerable size which run westward, of which fifty-two fall directly into the ocean. The principal of these rivers, some of which are navigable some distance into the interior, are the Huasco,...