The Last Travels of Ida Pfeiffer: Inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar : with an Autobiographical Memoir of the Author |
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... returned from Buenos Ayres to Rio de Janeiro , I found my mother's papers waiting for me there ; but the loss was too recent , and my grief too violent , to allow me to read them then , much less to peruse them with the care and ...
... returned from Buenos Ayres to Rio de Janeiro , I found my mother's papers waiting for me there ; but the loss was too recent , and my grief too violent , to allow me to read them then , much less to peruse them with the care and ...
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... returned , and she behaved more like a boy than ever . She learned every thing that she thought a boy should know with industry and zeal , and , on the other hand , looked with the greatest contempt on every female occupation . Piano ...
... returned , and she behaved more like a boy than ever . She learned every thing that she thought a boy should know with industry and zeal , and , on the other hand , looked with the greatest contempt on every female occupation . Piano ...
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... returned , with his wife , to Lemberg , but afterward came back again to Vienna , and at length even tried his fortune in Switzerland , his native country , where he had , however , only passed the earliest years of his life . But ...
... returned , with his wife , to Lemberg , but afterward came back again to Vienna , and at length even tried his fortune in Switzerland , his native country , where he had , however , only passed the earliest years of his life . But ...
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... Returning to the routine of every - day life in Vienna , she still secretly nourished the wish that her health and strength might be spared until her sons should have been established in life , and she should be enabled to go out into ...
... Returning to the routine of every - day life in Vienna , she still secretly nourished the wish that her health and strength might be spared until her sons should have been established in life , and she should be enabled to go out into ...
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... returned by way of Sicily and the whole of Italy to her home , arriving in Vienna in December , 1842 . As she had carefully kept a diary of her journey , from which she frequently read extracts to friends and acquaint- ances , she was ...
... returned by way of Sicily and the whole of Italy to her home , arriving in Vienna in December , 1842 . As she had carefully kept a diary of her journey , from which she frequently read extracts to friends and acquaint- ances , she was ...
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Page 146 - Some let these tails hang all about their heads, while others unite them into bands or bunches, so as to cover the whole head. This kind of head-dress takes a good deal of time in preparing, particularly in the cases of the richer Malagaseys, who have their hair plaited into an infinite number of these little tails. On the head of one of these native beauties I counted above sixty plaits. The good lady's slaves must have had a good day's work in bringing them to the right pitch of perfection. On...