Blackwood's Magazine, Volumen222William Blackwood, 1927 |
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... Anda , Collo ! " which means , Go on , Collo ! " thus encouraging him to persevere and saving his life . The humble shrine ... Andacollo is rightly venerated along the whole length of Chile . There is not a province - scarcely a township ...
... Anda , Collo ! " which means , Go on , Collo ! " thus encouraging him to persevere and saving his life . The humble shrine ... Andacollo is rightly venerated along the whole length of Chile . There is not a province - scarcely a township ...
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... Andacollo , reduced to one com- mon level of distress . Across the hills , riding at speed and killing horses under his great weight , he came . There were no railways in those days , no longitudinal , such as we have now . " I can see ...
... Andacollo , reduced to one com- mon level of distress . Across the hills , riding at speed and killing horses under his great weight , he came . There were no railways in those days , no longitudinal , such as we have now . " I can see ...
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... Andacollo ? " queried Don Pancho , lifting an eyebrow . " I am no believer in priests . " " No hay que hablar asi . Dios le castigará ! warned Don Rafael , staring severely into the face which , for all its owner was on foot , was ...
... Andacollo ? " queried Don Pancho , lifting an eyebrow . " I am no believer in priests . " " No hay que hablar asi . Dios le castigará ! warned Don Rafael , staring severely into the face which , for all its owner was on foot , was ...
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... Andacollo . " During the following week , one by one , the three grooms straggled back on their ex- hausted mounts . All were travel - stained and weary ; two of them came back without any accompanying led horse . They swore , with many ...
... Andacollo . " During the following week , one by one , the three grooms straggled back on their ex- hausted mounts . All were travel - stained and weary ; two of them came back without any accompanying led horse . They swore , with many ...
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Página 152 - Horrible, hairy, human, with paws like hands in prayer, Making his supplication rose Adam-zad the Bear! I looked at the swaying shoulders, at the paunch's swag and swing, And my heart was touched with pity for the monstrous, pleading thing.
Página 283 - How then shall any man, who has a genius for history equal to the best of the ancients, be able to undertake such a work with spirit and cheerfulness, when he considers that he will be read with pleasure but a very few years, and, in an age or two, shall hardly be understood without an interpreter?
Página 282 - ... that our language is extremely imperfect ; that its daily ' improvements are by no means in proportion to v its daily corruptions ; that the pretenders to polish and refine it, have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities ; and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar.
Página 285 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style, which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy...
Página 59 - I heard three sensible middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed.
Página 516 - So sincere and so undisguised, that no mind with a spark of generosity would ever think of hurting him, he lies so open to injury. But so indolent, that if he cannot overcome this habit, all his good qualities will signify nothing at all.
Página 285 - The great pest of speech is frequency of translation. No book was ever turned from one language into another without imparting something of its native idiom...
Página 849 - They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose.
Página 60 - The populace, at first, did not interrupt him, conceiving our army to be near the town ; but as soon as they knew that it would not arrive till the evening, they surrounded him in a tumultuous manner, with the intention of taking him prisoner, alive or dead.
Página 155 - Westminster Hall ; for many people think, if once they have fetched a warrant from a justice, they have given earnest to follow the suit, though otherwise the matter be so mean that the next night's sleep would have bound both parties to the peace, and made them as good friends as ever before.