Brazil and the Brazilians Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive SketchesLittle, Brown, and Company, 1879 - 646 páginas |
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Página 245 - 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...
Página 434 - 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...
Página 290 - 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.
Página 186 - 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...
Página 496 - On its head it bears a crest different from that of any other bird. It is formed of feathers more than two inches long, very thickly set, and with hairy plumes curving over at the end. These can be laid back so as to be hardly visible, or can be erected and spread out on every side, forming, as has been remarked, " a hemispherical, or rather a hemi-ellipsoidal, dome, completely covering the head, and even reaching beyond the point of the beak/' It inhabits the flooded islands of the Eio Negro and...
Página 450 - ... 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...
Página 115 - Brito — is owned and directed by a mulatto. In the colleges, the medical, law, and theological schools, there is no distinction of color.
Página 158 - 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.
Página 148 - Brazilians and the steady drinking of some foreigners and the regular " blow-out" of others is painful in the extreme. Wives in Brazil do not suffer from drunken husbands ; but many of the old Moorish prejudices make them the objects of much jealousy. There is, however, an advance in this respect ; and, far more frequently than formerly, women are seen out of the church, the ballroom, and the theatre. Nevertheless, — owing to the prevailing opinion that ladies ought not to appear in the streets...
Página 520 - ... they are allowed to bring suit in a criminal court, which may declare their freedom. A final provision of the Act emancipates the slaves who are state property, to the number of 1,600, with the proviso that ' the slaves liberated by virtue of this law remain for five years under the inspection of the Government.