Journal of a Voyage to Brazil: And Residence There, During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 |
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... rest of the people with difficulty survived in a very wretched condition . Meantime the passage through Magellan's Straits had been disco- vered , and the Spaniards , first under Sebastian Cabot , and afterwards * There is a note in the ...
... rest of the people with difficulty survived in a very wretched condition . Meantime the passage through Magellan's Straits had been disco- vered , and the Spaniards , first under Sebastian Cabot , and afterwards * There is a note in the ...
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... rest of the convoy . When it arrived he sailed boldly into the reconcave , and St. Salvador was taken almost without a struggle . Vandort , the Dutch general , immediately began to fortify the place , and proclamations being issued ...
... rest of the convoy . When it arrived he sailed boldly into the reconcave , and St. Salvador was taken almost without a struggle . Vandort , the Dutch general , immediately began to fortify the place , and proclamations being issued ...
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... rest of his squadron not being able to come up with him , ran in between two of them , sunk one , and compelled several others to strike : his own ship , however , grounded , and he burnt her . He added four ships to his own fleet ...
... rest of his squadron not being able to come up with him , ran in between two of them , sunk one , and compelled several others to strike : his own ship , however , grounded , and he burnt her . He added four ships to his own fleet ...
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... rest were hanged by the common executioner , and left for the fowls of the air . At length this horrible warfare was ended . The two battles of the Gararapes * , had decided the fate of the Dutch in Brazil : but it was the co ...
... rest were hanged by the common executioner , and left for the fowls of the air . At length this horrible warfare was ended . The two battles of the Gararapes * , had decided the fate of the Dutch in Brazil : but it was the co ...
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... rest . But there was an evil that affected Brazil generally - the too much and the too little power of the governors . They had too much power , if any appeal lay from them - too little , if they were absolute for the term of their ...
... rest . But there was an evil that affected Brazil generally - the too much and the too little power of the governors . They had too much power , if any appeal lay from them - too little , if they were absolute for the term of their ...
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Admiral Angola appeared arrived Arrobas assembly Bahia beautiful Botafogo Brazil Brazil wood Brazilians Cabinda called Campo Captain captaincy Caramuru church coast colony command Conde constitution Cortes court Dance Ditto Dona dressed Emperor empire of Brazil Empress England English Europe fleet foreign French friends frigate garden governor Guanche guns handsome harbour hill honour horses Imperial Majesty independence of Brazil Indians inhabitants island Itaparica Jesuits Joam José junta King ladies land Lisbon Lord Cochrane Luanda Luiz Madeira maize mandioc Maranham Maria ment morning Muzambique native negroes neighbourhood night officers Olinda palace party passed patriots Pedro Primeiro Pernambuco persons port Portugal Portuguese Prince province Quilumana received Recife Rego Rio de Janeiro round Royal Highness sailed seen sent settlement ship shore side slaves soldiers squadron thing to-day took town trees troops vessels
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Page 200 - For why? there was but one great rule for all; To wit, that each should work his own desire, And eat, drink, study, sleep, as it may fall, Or melt the time in love, or wake the lyre, And carol what, unbid, the Muses might inspire.
Page 96 - Though rooted deep as high, and sturdiest oaks, Bow'd their stiff necks, loaden with stormy blasts, Or torn up sheer.
Page 165 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious ! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. — Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...
Page 188 - Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
Page 91 - It is a strange thing that, in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries; but in land travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it; as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation: let diaries, therefore, be brought in use.
Page 325 - And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired : but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.
Page 134 - Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil ; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Page 96 - Gan thunder, and both ends of Heav'n; the Clouds From many a horrid rift abortive pour'd Fierce rain with lightning mixt, water with fire In ruin reconcil'd: nor slept the winds Within thir stony caves, but rush'd abroad From the four hinges of the world, and fell On the vext Wilderness...
Page 205 - He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to be shut By jealous Nature with eternal bars. In these fell regions, in Arzina caught, And to the stony deep his idle ship Immediate seal'd, he with his hapless crew, Each full exerted at his several task, Froze into statues; to the cordage glued The sailor, and the pilot to the helm.