Through South America's Southland: With an Account of the Roosevelt Scientific Expedition to South America

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D. Appleton, 1916 - 526 páginas

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Página 244 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Página 173 - Nel gran fior discendeva, che s' adorna Di tante foglie, e quindi risaliva Là dove il suo amor sempre soggiorna. Le facce tutte avean di fiamma viva, E l' ali d' oro, e l' altro tanto bianco Che nulla neve a quel termine arriva. Quando scendean nel fior, di banco in banco Porgevan della pace e dell' ardore, Ch' egli acquistavan ventilando il fianco.
Página 429 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Página 191 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Página 429 - There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things : our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors.
Página 452 - Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air : thou hast seen these signs ; They are black vesper's pageants.
Página 400 - Yes ; for, in history's mournful map, the eye On Paraguay, as on a sunny spot, May rest complacent : to humanity, There, and there only, hath a peaceful lot Been granted, by Ambition troubled not, By Avarice undebased, exempt from care, By perilous passions undisturbed. And what If Glory never reared her standard there, Nor with her clarion's blast awoke the slumbering air?
Página 161 - The tribunal which tried him adjudged that he " be cashiered and declared totally unfit and unworthy to serve his Majesty in any military capacity whatever.
Página 332 - Leader still our present state demands, To guide to vengeance our impatient bands; Fit for this hardy task that Chief I deem, Who longest may sustain a massive beam: Your rank is equal, let your force be tried And for the strongest let his strength decide.
Página 326 - We both had followed thee in joyous death: Take, take thy son ! he was a tie most dear, Which spotless love once made my heart revere ; Take him ! — by generous pain, and wounded pride, The currents of this fruitful breast are dried : Rear him thyself, for thy gigantic frame, To woman turn'd, a woman's charge may claim : A Mother's title I no more desire, Or shameful children from a shameful sire!

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