Life in Brazil; Or, A Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the PalmHarper & Brothers, 1856 - 469 pagina's |
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Life in Brazil; Or, A Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the Palm Thomas Ewbank Volledige weergave - 1856 |
Life in Brazil; Or, A Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the Palm Thomas Ewbank Volledige weergave - 1856 |
Life in Brazil; Or, A Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the Palm Thomas Ewbank Volledige weergave - 1856 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 238 - So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought ; but also there is danger that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worship.
Pagina 265 - I have passed black ladies in silks and jewelry, with male slaves in livery behind them. Today one rode past in her carriage, accompanied by a liveried footman and a coachman. Several have white husbands. The first doctor of the city is a colored man; so is the President of the Province.
Pagina 102 - ... around them ; the triumph of those who successfully threw the abeer, and the clamours of others who suffered from their attacks ; the loud shouts of laughter and applause which burst on all sides from the joyous...
Pagina 65 - Fond of dress while living, Brazilians are buried in their best, except when from religious motives other vestments are preferred. Punctilious to the. last degree, they enforce etiquette on the dead.
Pagina 436 - ... compete with their progress in the temperate zones. As respects progress, they are, of Latin nations, next to the French. In the Chambers are able and enlightened statesmen ; and the representatives of the Empire abroad are conceded to rank in talent with the ambassadors of any other country. As for material elements of greatness, no people under the sun are more highly favored, and none have a higher destiny opened before them. May they have the wisdom to achieve it!
Pagina 393 - Propositions like those emitted from the Chair of Truth by a priest of the character of M. Bedini are eminently censurable." The bishop is invoked to act promptly in the matter, as one that threatens to compromise the interests of Brazil.
Pagina 450 - Incas, when any useful plant and animal was an object of veneration, the Peruvians rendered almost divine worship to the llama and his relatives, which exclusively furnished them with wool for clothing, and with flesh for food. The temples were adorned with large figures of these animals, made of gold and silver, and their forms were represented in domestic utensils of stone and clay.
Pagina 449 - All are ornamented within, none without. The colors are black, red, white, and yellow — the last looking like unburnished gold. Except such as have recurved or ring-shaped handles, all have studs at the rims ; and some of these projections have small perforations, probably to insert loops of twine to suspend them against the walls, instead of resting them on shelves. Those marked s, t, were found in 1820, in a huaca near Saint Sebastian, one league from Cuzco.
Pagina 454 - ... on which a fox or gamba is mounted, with a prey or young one in its mouth. The surface of the haft is dented, to imitate a cord, or something like the plaited covering of a whip handle. In this particular the engraving does not do it justice.
Pagina 449 - By a superstition indigenous to all lands, people without records have left their annals in their graves. In the belief that their wants and occupations would be the same in the spirit land as they were here, they had their household and personal effects interred with them. Every Inca had his cooking utensils in his cemetery ; not only his gold and silver ware, but, observes the native historian, "the plates and dishes of his kitchen." We can scarcely regret the prevalence of a delusion which has...