| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 páginas
...the in terest he took in battles and sieges, ill accorded with the ideas we form of the melancholy reveries and the contemplative life of missionaries....extremely busy about a cow which was to be killed next day, the old monk received Humboldt and Bonpland with kindness, and permitted them to hang up... | |
| 1819 - 838 páginas
...battles and sieges, ill accorded with the ideas we form in our northern countries of the melancholy reveries, and the contemplative life of missionaries....greater part of the day, in an arm chair of red wood, be bitterly complained of what he called the indolence and ignorance of his countrymen. He asked a... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1819 - 872 páginas
...battles and sieges, ill accorded with the ideas we form in our northern countries of the melancholy reveries, and the contemplative life of missionaries....hammocks in a gallery of his house. Seated, without doirrg any thing, the greater part of the day, in ah arm chair of red wood, he bitterly complained... | |
| Alexander Walker - 1822 - 844 páginas
...battles and sieges, ill accorded with the ideas we form in our northern countries of the melancholy reveries, and the contemplative life of missionaries....extremely busy about a cow which was to be killed next day, the old monk received us with kindness, and permitted us to hang up our hammocks in a gallery... | |
| Alexander Walker - 1822 - 846 páginas
...battles and sieges, ill accorded with the ideas we form in our northern countries of the melancholy reveries, and the contemplative life of missionaries....extremely busy about a cow which was to be killed next day, the old monk received us with kindness, and permitted us to hang up our hammocks in a gallery... | |
| William Adams (M.A.) - 1832 - 516 páginas
...the former description. The missionary was far advanced in age, but strong, healthy, and corpulent ; seated, without doing any thing, the greater part of the day in an armed chair, he bitterly complained of what he called " the indolence of his countrymen." The sight... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1830 - 360 páginas
...battles and sieges, ill accorded with the ideas we form in our northern countries of the melancholy reveries and the contemplative life of missionaries....doing any thing, the greater part of the day, in an arm-chair of red wood, he bitterly complained of what he called the indolence and ignorance of his... | |
| William Adams - 1836 - 508 páginas
...the former description. The missionary was far advanced in age, but strong, healthy, and corpulent ; seated, without doing any thing, the greater part of the day in an armed chair, he bitterly complained of what he called " the indolence of his countrymen." The sight... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1852 - 544 páginas
...in battles and sieges, ill accorded with the ideas we form in northern countries of the melancholy reveries and the contemplative life of missionaries....extremely busy about a cow which was to be killed next day, the old monk received us with kindness, and permitted us to hang up our hammocks in a gallery... | |
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1859 - 528 páginas
...the in terest he took in battles and sieges, ill accorded with the ideas we form of the melancholy reveries and the contemplative life of missionaries....extremely busy about a cow which was to be killed next day, the old monk received Humboldt and Bonpland with kindness, and permitted them to hang up... | |
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