The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer: Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar : with an Autobiographical Memoir of the AuthorHarper, 1861 - 281 páginas |
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... certainly behaved to me with great kindness and delicacy , and showed great patience and perseverance in combating my overstrained and misdirected notions . As I had learned rather to fear my parents than to love them , and he was , so ...
... certainly behaved to me with great kindness and delicacy , and showed great patience and perseverance in combating my overstrained and misdirected notions . As I had learned rather to fear my parents than to love them , and he was , so ...
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... certainly have applied to my mother or my brothers for relief , but my pride revolted against such a course . For years I fought with poverty and concealed my real position , often brought so near to despair that the thought of my ...
... certainly have applied to my mother or my brothers for relief , but my pride revolted against such a course . For years I fought with poverty and concealed my real position , often brought so near to despair that the thought of my ...
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... certainly the responsibility of " pay- ing out " his brothers , as it is called ; but they never receive much , as the estate is always appraised considerably below its value , and the chief heir , moreover , receives a consider- able ...
... certainly the responsibility of " pay- ing out " his brothers , as it is called ; but they never receive much , as the estate is always appraised considerably below its value , and the chief heir , moreover , receives a consider- able ...
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... certainly reckoned among the most gigantic undertakings of the present century . Where a few years ago great ships sailed , and where the fisherman spread his nets , thousands of cows now graze , and beauteous fields and meadows smile ...
... certainly reckoned among the most gigantic undertakings of the present century . Where a few years ago great ships sailed , and where the fisherman spread his nets , thousands of cows now graze , and beauteous fields and meadows smile ...
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... certainly does not cost him much trouble to divest himself of them , for they are of wood , and he has only to kick them off . Not but that he has better ones for Sundays and visiting days ; it is only at his work that he is shod with ...
... certainly does not cost him much trouble to divest himself of them , for they are of wood , and he has only to kick them off . Not but that he has better ones for Sundays and visiting days ; it is only at his work that he is shod with ...
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Página 146 - Some let these tails hang all about their heads, while others unite them into bands or bunches, so as to cover the whole head. This kind of head-dress takes a good deal of time in preparing, particularly in the cases of the richer Malagaseys, who have their hair plaited into an infinite number of these little tails. On the head of one of these native beauties I counted above sixty plaits. The good lady's slaves must have had a good day's work in bringing them to the right pitch of perfection. On...