Brazil and the Brazilians

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Childs & Peterson, 1857 - 630 pages
A salesman's sample book for this publication, starting with the publisher's advertisement for it (used as the t.p.) and with all the ills., the brown cloth binding of the published version, none of the text, but approx. 50 p. of lined paper, ready to sign up subscribers (this part unmarked). A [12]-p. prospectus for William Elder's biography of Elisha Kent Kane is also tipped in at end.
 

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Page 277 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder ; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps...
Page 433 - And fairy-form'd and many-colour'd things, Who worship him with notes more sweet than words, And innocently open their glad wings, Fearless and full of life : the gush of springs, And fall of lofty fountains, and the bend Of stirring branches, and the bud which brings The swiftest thought of beauty, here extend, Mingling, and made by Love, unto one mighty end.
Page 482 - O'ER the gloomy hills of darkness, Look, my soul, be still and gaze ; All the promises do travail With a glorious day of grace. Blessed jubilee, Let thy glorious morning dawn. 2...
Page 204 - FALLS. RUSH on, bold stream ! thou sendest up Brave notes to all the woods around, When morning beams are gathering fast, And hushed is every human sound...
Page 326 - Spread — void of living sight or sound. And here, while the night-winds round me sigh, And the stars burn bright in the midnight sky, As I sit apart by the desert stone, Like Elijah at Horeb's cave, alone, "A still small voice" comes through the wild, Like a father consoling his fretful child, Which banishes bitterness, wrath, and fear.
Page 186 - If Ceres deserved a place in the mythology of Greece, far more might the deification of that person have been expected who instructed his fellows in the use of mandioc.
Page 502 - ... in the way of trial. But the vampire seemed to take a personal dislike to me ; and the provoking brute would refuse to give my claret one solitary trial, though he would tap the more favoured Indian's toe, in a hammock within a few yards of mine. For the space of eleven months, I slept alone in the loft of a woodcutter's abandoned house in the forest ; and though the vampire came in and out every night, and I had the finest...
Page 555 - It inhabits the flooded islands of the Rio Negro and the Solimoes, never appearing on the mainland. It feeds on fruits, and utters a loud, hoarse cry, like some deep musical instrument; whence its Indian name, Ueramimbe, "trumpet-bird.
Page 174 - There is, however, a great deal of superficiality: he is made a "little old man" before he is twelve years of age, — having his stiff black silk hat, standing collar, and cane; and in the city he walks along as if everybody were looking at him, and as if he were encased in corsets. He does not run, or jump, or trundle hoop, or throw stones, as boys in Europe and North America.
Page 54 - Nobrega, their chief and provincial, at length succeeded in rousing the court of Lisbon. A messenger was commanded to discover the state of the French fortifications. On the ground of his report, orders were...

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