Brazil: Its Condition and ProspectsAppleton, 1891 - 352 psl. |
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... received with great enthusiasm . Though many circumstances contributed to the revo- lution , the main causes of it were the emancipation of the slaves , the intrigues incident to parliamentary govern- ment ii PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION .
... received with great enthusiasm . Though many circumstances contributed to the revo- lution , the main causes of it were the emancipation of the slaves , the intrigues incident to parliamentary govern- ment ii PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION .
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... received that such committee was ready to report . It is some- what peculiar that this committee was composed princi- pally of young men . The committee concluded its labors on the 6th of December . The Assembly met on the 11th of ...
... received that such committee was ready to report . It is some- what peculiar that this committee was composed princi- pally of young men . The committee concluded its labors on the 6th of December . The Assembly met on the 11th of ...
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... received information . I have since become sat- isfied that a majority of American teachers in that country have met with good success . The synopsis of Senator Ottoni's speech ( page 313 320 ) was made from a translation reported in ...
... received information . I have since become sat- isfied that a majority of American teachers in that country have met with good success . The synopsis of Senator Ottoni's speech ( page 313 320 ) was made from a translation reported in ...
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... received forty thousand such infants ! They are taken care of eight days , then put into private families for board at about five dollars a month each , until a year and a half old , after which two dollars a month are paid . About six ...
... received forty thousand such infants ! They are taken care of eight days , then put into private families for board at about five dollars a month each , until a year and a half old , after which two dollars a month are paid . About six ...
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... received , and from thirty to thirty - two per cent die , a smaller percent- age than in former years . The number received in for- mer times was also larger than at present , being from five hundred to six hundred per year , thus ...
... received , and from thirty to thirty - two per cent die , a smaller percent- age than in former years . The number received in for- mer times was also larger than at present , being from five hundred to six hundred per year , thus ...
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acres Agassiz agricultural Amazon Valley American appearance Bahia Brazil Brazilian building Cabinet capital Ceará cents Chamber of Deputies church coffee colony color crop cultivated distance Dom Pedro II eight election emancipation Emperor export feet five forest forty four frequently Government ground half hammock hills hundred Indians interior Iracema João Alfredo labor ladies land Liberal look Manáos ment miles million dollars milreis minister ministry month morning mountains municipal night o'clock onça Ouro Preto Pará party passed Paulo Pedro Pernambuco Petropolis Piracicaba plantations planters Portugal Portuguese Portuguese language pounds present president principal province railway received Rio de Janeiro river River Plate Santos São Paulo seen Senator side situated slavery slaves soil South steamers street-cars streets teachers thousand dollars timber tion trees twelve twenty United usually yellow fever
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352 psl. - America," are all but unknown to the outside world; he spent months in the picturesque capital of Rio Janeiro; he visited the coffee districts, studied the slaves, descended the gold-mines, viewed the greatest rapids of the globe, entered the isolated Guianas, and so on.
xv psl. - ... the admission into the United States of America free of all duty of the articles enumerated in Section 3 of said Act, the Government of...
299 psl. - Some days afterward the young men belonging to the different sitios agreed to go in search of the serpent. They began in a systematic manner, forming two parties, each embarked in three or four canoes, and starting from points several miles apart, whence they gradually approximated, searching all the little inlets on both sides the river. The reptile was found at last sunning itself on a log at the mouth of a muddy rivulet, and dispatched with harpoons. I saw it the day after it was killed ; it was...
277 psl. - Mandos so diversified. . . . Then the element of human life and habitations is utterly wanting ; one often travels for a day without meeting even so much as a hut. But, if men are not to be seen, animals are certainly plenty ; as our steamer puffs along, great...
285 psl. - Let any one who doubts the evil of this mixture of races, and is inclined,, from a mistaken philanthropy, to break down all barriers between them, come to Brazil. He cannot deny the deterioration consequent upon an amalgamation of races, more widespread here than in any other country in the world, and which is rapidly effacing the best qualities of the white man, the negro, and the Indian, leaving a mongrel nondescript type, deficient in physical and mental energy.
279 psl. - The dresses," says Mrs. Agassiz, " were of every variety, from silks and satins to stuff-gowns, and the complexions of all tints, from the genuine negro through paler shades of Indian and negro to white. There is absolutely no distinction of color here ; a black lady (always supposing her to be free) is treated with as much consideration and meets with as much attention as a white one. It is, however, rare to see a person in society who can be called a genuine negro ; but there are many mulattoes...
94 psl. - In their country, the physical causes arc so active, and do their work on a scale of such unrivalled magnitude, that it has hitherto been found impossible to escape from the effects of their united action. The progress of agriculture is stopped by impassable forests, and the harvests are destroyed by innumerable insects. The mountains are too high to scale, the rivers are too wide to bridge; every thing is contrived to keep back the human mind, and repress its rising ambition.
94 psl. - Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe, is covered with a vegetation of incredible profusion. Indeed, so rank and luxuriant is the growth, that Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power.
352 psl. - AROUND AND ABOUT SOUTH AMERICA: ** Twenty Months of Quest and Query. By FRANK VINCENT, author of "The Land of the White Elephant,
xv psl. - Lard and substitutes therefor. Bacon hams. Butter and cheese. Canned and preserved meats, fish, fruits, and vegetables. Manufactures of cotton, including cotton clothing. Manufactures of iron and steel, single or mixed, not included in the foregoing tree schedule.