South Sea Sketches: A Narrative

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J. R. Osgood, 1881 - 238 páginas

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Página 107 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream. 'Tis the star-spangled banner; oh, long may it wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
Página 146 - We therefore, for reasons physiological, 10 moral, aesthetic, and political, disapprove of the sewing-machine. Let us rather seek a return to the habits of elegant simplicity of our grandmothers, and not deprive our women of the patient, graceful, pliant needle, type of the feminine, for in its place we have set up an iron Moloch which will in time prostrate soul and body.
Página 145 - It fosters a love of ornate and complex dress, and we have already a partial result in this direction, in the prevailing modes, which are elaborate beyond all previous fashions, involving millions of fine stitches, which could scarcely be attempted except by machinery, so that the employment of this mechanical aid vitiates good taste and stimu lates luxury.
Página 25 - Drawing, in such a manner as to give as much as possible to...
Página 71 - maflana' forever, and I suppose in the other world it will be all the same, ' maflana.' " We laugh, but we too hear it every day. In all one's business affairs, delay, never ending delay. The enervating climate doubtless has something to do with this, but it is also in a measure to be attributed to the characteristic subtlety of this people. They are wary, especially of strangers, and, even though distrustful, are too kind-hearted and mild-tempered expressly to dissent. Hence the compromise of "manana.
Página 71 - ... One fair morning the United States consul, who is one of the most amiable of men, makes us a call. He lives in Callao, and only comes up to Lima now and then. On this occasion he has such a wearied, disappointed look, that we involuntarily ask
Página 71 - When for the thousandth time to-day I thought to have reached the end, I am bowed out with
Página 71 - we interrogate. " Well, I mean that nothing can be accomplished here definitely ; you are always politely met, patiently listened to, and answered
Página 123 - No matter how unreasonable a thing may be, if it is the "custom of the country...

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