Travels in Peru During the Years 1838-1842: On the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, Into the Primeval Forests, Volumen1

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Wiley & Putnam, 1847 - 353 páginas
 

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Página 360 - ... the inmost recesses of their souls. He draws aside the veil of time with a hand tremulous with mingled delight and reverence ; and descants with kindling enthusiasm, on all the delicacies of that picture of genius which he discloses. His intense admiration of intellectual beauty seems always to sharpen his critical faculties. He...
Página 117 - At an average, forty-five shocks may be counted on in the year. Most of them occur in the latter part of October, in November, December, January, May, and June. Experience gives reason to expect the visitation of two desolating earthquakes in a century. The period between the two is from forty to sixty years. The most considerable catastrophes experienced in Lima since Europeans have visited the west coast of South America, happened in the years 1586, 1630, 1687, 1713, 1746, 1806. There is reason...
Página 67 - As a general rule, it may be fairly said that they unite in themselves all the faults, without any of the virtues, of their progenitors ; as men they are generally inferior to the pure races, and as members of society they are the worst class of citizens.
Página 319 - ... .During divine worship the priests chewed coca leaves, and unless they were supplied with them, it was believed that the favour of the gods could not be propitiated. It was also deemed necessary that the supplicator for divine grace should approach the priests with an acullico in his mouth. It was believed that any business undertaken without the benediction of coca leaves could not prosper, and to the shrub itself worship was rendered. During an interval of more than three hundred years Christianity...

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