Silver Mines and Incidents of Travel: Letters and Notes on Sea and LandT. Wilson, printer, 1893 - 314 páginas |
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... cost of which , including the decorations , was upwards of 100,000 dollars . The hospital cost 40,000 dollars , the annual expenditure is about 15,000 dollars . The Señoritas of Copiapó are liberal in charitable and religious duties ...
... cost of which , including the decorations , was upwards of 100,000 dollars . The hospital cost 40,000 dollars , the annual expenditure is about 15,000 dollars . The Señoritas of Copiapó are liberal in charitable and religious duties ...
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... costs of Chilian working may possibly not repay extraction . As the value of an article is not governed by the cost , and more grease and beans can be eaten even in gathering silver and gold , than the sale of them may yield , many ...
... costs of Chilian working may possibly not repay extraction . As the value of an article is not governed by the cost , and more grease and beans can be eaten even in gathering silver and gold , than the sale of them may yield , many ...
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... repay present cost of reduction in Chili , is therefore thrown outside the mine . The declivity being frequently more than 45 ° , and the allotments small , walls are built to defend the surplus stones of one SILVER MINING . 15.
... repay present cost of reduction in Chili , is therefore thrown outside the mine . The declivity being frequently more than 45 ° , and the allotments small , walls are built to defend the surplus stones of one SILVER MINING . 15.
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... cost of not more than 3,000,000 dollars . She was first to offer her wealth to the poor wood - carrier , so has she ever been the most prolific in Chañarcillo in yielding up her treasures to her fortunate owners . The Carbonera , or ...
... cost of not more than 3,000,000 dollars . She was first to offer her wealth to the poor wood - carrier , so has she ever been the most prolific in Chañarcillo in yielding up her treasures to her fortunate owners . The Carbonera , or ...
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... cost . Thus it occurs frequently that when the works arrive at a depth of sixty varas , it is necessary to make a ... costs monthly fifty - six to sixty dollars , the value of the dollar in English money being about 3s . 10d . as per ...
... cost . Thus it occurs frequently that when the works arrive at a depth of sixty varas , it is necessary to make a ... costs monthly fifty - six to sixty dollars , the value of the dollar in English money being about 3s . 10d . as per ...
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Página 297 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Página 63 - He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it: and he that hateth suretyship is sure.
Página 181 - ... intention to injure us. We ought rather to meet the anticipated danger by a diligent cultivation, and prudent management, of our own resources. We ought to conciliate the respect and good will of other nations, and secure their assistance in case of need, by the benevolence and justice of our conduct. War is not to be resorted to without absolute necessity, nor unless peace would be more dangerous, and more miserable, than war itself.
Página 153 - ... heats it again, and but for your awnings, and the little air put in circulation by the continual flapping of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects.
Página 153 - ... of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects. You feel a degree of lassitude unconquerable, which not even the sea-bathing, which everywhere else proves so salutary and renovating, can dispel. Except when in actual danger of shipwreck, I never spent twelve more disagreeable days in the professional part of my life, than in these calm latitudes.
Página 181 - ... individual member of a state, is a just cause of war, if redress be refused, but a nation is not bound to go to war on so slight a foundation ; for it may of itself grant indemnity to the injured party, and if this cannot be done, yet the good of the whole is to be preferred to the welfare of a part.b Every milder method of redress is to be tried, before the nation makes an appeal to arms ; and this is the sage and moral precept of the writers on natural law.
Página 153 - ... flapping of the ship's sails, it would be almost insufferable. No person who has not crossed this region can form an adequate idea of its unpleasant effects. You feel a degree of lassitude unconquerable, which not even the sea-bathing, which every where else proves so salutary and renovating, can dispel.
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