Memoirs of General Miller: In the Service of the Republic of Peru, Հատոր 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828 |
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Memoirs of General Miller: In the Service of the Republic of Peru, Հատոր 2 John Miller Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1829 |
Memoirs of General Miller: In the Service of the Republic of Peru, Հատոր 2 John Miller Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1829 |
Memoirs of General Miller: In the Service of the Republic of Peru, Հատոր 2 John Miller Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1829 |
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Էջ 372 - A republican government has been, is, and ought to be, that of Venezuela ; its basis ought to be the sovereignty of the people, the division of power, civil liberty, the prohibition of slavery, and the abolition of monarchy and privileges.
Էջ 378 - ... one another are the significant advantages that work in favor of royal authority, thereby rendering it almost unlimited. Consequently, the significance of these same advantages should serve to justify the necessity of investing the chief magistrate of a republic with a greater measure of authority than that possessed by a constitutional prince. A republican magistrate is an individual set apart from society, charged with checking the impulse of the people toward license and the propensity of...
Էջ 397 - Almighty has no attribute which can take sides with us, in such a contest." (A contest with insurgent slaves.) — Jefferson. "Slavery is the infringement of all laws — a law having a. tendency to preserve slavery, would be the grossest sacrilege.
Էջ 397 - Legislators ! I shall make mention of an article, which in my conscience I ought to have omitted. No religious creed or profession should be prescribed in a political constitution...
Էջ 52 - Very often the banks of rivers are too steep and rugged to admit of the water being applied to the purposes of irrigation ; consequently the surrounding country cannot be cultivated. No stranger can travel from valley to valley, as the inhabited strips are inappropriately called, without a guide; for the only indication that the desert has been trodden before, is an occasional cluster of bones, the remains of beasts of burden that have perished. The sand is frequently raised into immense clouds by...
Էջ 387 - I have dared to address to you. Vouchsafe to grant to Venezuela a government purely popular, purely just, and purely moral, which will enchain oppression, anarchy, and crime ; a government which will cause innocency, philanthropy, and peace to reign ; a government which, under the dominion of inexorable laws, will cause equality and liberty to triumph. Gentlemen ! Commence your duties : I have finished mine.
Էջ 203 - ... three leagues distant from the nearest human habitation. The guides galloped on to a village in advance, and brought out a hundred Indians to assist in leading the men. Many of the sufferers, maddened by pain, had strayed away from the column, and perished before the return of the guides, who, together with the Indians, took charge of long files of the poor sightless soldiers, clinging to each other with agonized and desperate grasp. During their dreary march by a rugged mountain path, several...
Էջ 154 - ... had commenced a detour of nearly a league. Descending the sides of Condorkanki on the north, Valdez placed himself on the left of the patriots at musket-shot distance, separated by a ravine. At the important moment of the battle, just described, he opened a heavy fire from four field-pieces and a battalion in extended files.
Էջ 359 - ... Forgetting every thing he has achieved for the establishment of our liberties,—- eight years of affliction and dangers — the sacrifice of his fortune and repose — indescribable fatigues and hardships — exertions of which scarcely a similar example can be quoted from history,' — that constancy proof against every reverse — that invincible firmness in never despairing of the salvation of our country, even when he saw her subjugated, and he destitute and alone ; — forgetting, I say,...
Էջ 178 - ... Pizarro, is still standing. Upon a lofty hill, a little north of the city, are the ruins of a great fortress of Zarsahuman, many parts of the wall of which are even now in perfect preservation. They consist of stones of extraordinary size, and of polygonal shapes, placed one upon another without cement, but fitted with such nicety as not to admit the insertion of a knife between them. This stupendous work was erected by the Incas for the protection of their capital. Dr. Robertson states, that...