A732.03    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. vol. 3.   Text

my return to Spain, the Protector having granted to me the necessary passport. The polite attention which I owe to your excellency, and the peculiar qualifications which adorn and distinguish you, oblige me by this measure to manifest to you my most sincere esteem and regard. In Spain, if God grants that I may arrive in safety, or in any other part where I may exist, I request that you will deign to command me. On leaving this country, I am convinced that its independence is for ever sealed

A732.03    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. vol. 3.   Text

had formed a nest of the vilest spies, who unceasingly watched the steps of every man of honour. Great God! what an epoch of misery! Every honourable citizen found in Don Bernardo Monteagudo (this is the name of the [page] 45

A732.03    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. vol. 3.   Text

defend their freedom on the field of battle. May God preserve your sovereignty for many years. Free Town, September 20th, 1822. (Signed) Jos de San Martin. To the Sovereign Congress of Peru. The following, being the last proclamation [page] 46

A816    Beagle Library:     Nuñez, Ignacio Benito. 1825. An account, historical, political, and statistical, of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata: with an appendix concerning the usurpation of Monte Video by the Portuguese and Brazilian governments. London: R. Ackerman.   Text

government. God preserve your Excellency many years. Hall of Representatives in Buenos Ayres, 9th November, 1821. (Signed) VALENTIN GOMEZ, President. PEDRO ANDRES GARCIA, Secretary of Votes pro tempore. To the Most Excellent the Governor and Captain-general of the Province. [page] 7

A816    Beagle Library:     Nuñez, Ignacio Benito. 1825. An account, historical, political, and statistical, of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata: with an appendix concerning the usurpation of Monte Video by the Portuguese and Brazilian governments. London: R. Ackerman.   Text

it. During that period, the children have shown themselves, not unfrequently, as to their interior arrangements, more or less as their fathers have shown and continue to show themselves, although with one essential difference, which it is always fit to bear in mind, namely, that no change of government, by any revolutionary movement, and no disorder in the public forms of administration, have ever been able to establish the principle that God commanded, as in his chosen nation, to retrograde

A332.2    Beagle Library:     Caldcleugh, Alexander. 1825. Travels in South America, during the years 1819 - 20 - 21: containing an account of the present state of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.   Text   Image

or going tapada, has been abolished in Spain by repeated edicts. In 1586, a royal statute was published in Madrid upon a petition addressed to the Court. It is stated in it, that the custom of wearing veils, or going concealed, has been carried to such excess, that serious evils have arisen both to God and the nation by permitting them; no conoce el padre la hija, ni el marido la muger, ni el hermano la hermona, i tienen la libertad, tiempo, i lugar su voluntad, i dan ocasion que los hombres se

A752    Beagle Library:     Byron, George Anson. 1826. Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825. London: John Murray.   Text

measure, and therefore resistance on his part was unexpected: besides, being the first cousin of the king, he was supposed to be particularly engaged to support the measures of his house. However, he had only waited for the destruction of the hevas as a signal for rebellion, and seizing the war-god Tarai, which was under his guardianship, and which had anciently been placed as the royal standard in every field of battle, he induced a number of the kanakas to join him; and flying with them from

A752    Beagle Library:     Byron, George Anson. 1826. Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825. London: John Murray.   Text

her, certain destruction. Her answer was noble: I will descend into the crater, said she; and if I do not return safe, then continue to worship Peli: but if I come back unhurt you must learn to adore the God who created Peli. She accordingly went down the steep and difficult side of the crater, accompanied by a missionary, and by some whom love or duty induced to follow her. Arrived at the bottom, she pushed a stick into the liquid lava, and stirred the ashes of the burning lake. The charm of

A735    Beagle Library:     Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun.   Text

came to know me well And love me it was sure to die. The views now submitted appear to me to be sustained by such forcible testimony that the evidence seems almost irresistible. How diversified the interest and beauty which every where pervade the loveliness and grandeur of the creation of GOD! And what sublime pleasures are sacrificed by the non-observance of the wonders of creative omnipotence! [page 105

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existence of Christ cannot be proved by evidence: but Sceptics must be reduced to this dilemma. — Either Jesus did not exist or he actually lived, but was not the son of God. hence an imposter.— Supposing his non existence we must believe that a number of persons undertook to persuade [114v

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Ch X. Shows supposing the Christian religion to be true in how very natural manner it was promulgated. — We have no right to deny miracles the only proof which God could use for the purpose of convincing.— We can easily understand that the Christian religion opposing every national feeling every innate prejudice might be expected by a large body of men, even as Christ to this day is practically disobeyed but that a single man without the evidence, which the Scripture states to have been used

A545.1    Book:     Malthus, Thomas. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occassions. London: John Murray. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

How comes it again that, of all our parishes, the one which gives the mean life the highest, should also be the one where the tendency to increase is the smallest? To resolve this question, I will hazard a conjecture, which, however, I give only as such. Is it not, that in order to maintain in all places the proper equilibrium of population, God has wisely ordered things in such a manner, as that the force of life in each country should be in the inverse ratio of its fecundity?* In fact

A735    Beagle Library:     Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun.   Text

ness of their own understanding. Apart, they may occasionally appear but feeble folk; but, with a commission from Jehovah, become as the armies of the living God. The contemptible moschito may drive man to madness and the terrible zimb make the most savage beast of the desert tremble and flee before it. An army of locusts, denser than the storm-cloud, and compassing an extent of many miles, may lay waste, in a few short hours, the blossom and promise of the year, and mercilessly consign the

A752    Beagle Library:     Byron, George Anson. 1826. Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825. London: John Murray.   Text

testify his regret at the death of the sovereigns than by giving an early audience to the surviving suite. The manner of their reception, and the treatment they met with in England, could be best detailed by those to whom God had granted a safe return to their native land. The King of England had moreover caused the expenses of the Sandwich Island chiefs, while in Q 2 [page] 11

A752    Beagle Library:     Byron, George Anson. 1826. Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825. London: John Murray.   Text

the necessary conductors to heaven, they are acquiring a degree of public and private importance, which, but for the situation of the Islands, which secures a constant accession of foreigners for the purposes of commerce, would bid fair to renew the Jesuitical dominion of Paraguay. It is true, they defend their system by saying, that since the tabu for the false deities was so severely kept, the proselytes might despise our doctrine did we pay less regard to him whom we preach as the true God

A752    Beagle Library:     Byron, George Anson. 1826. Voyage of H.M.S. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, in the years 1824-1825. London: John Murray.   Text

that the first in which a vessel from the civilized world touched there, the superstitions of ages were overturned, and the knowledge of the true God brought among a docile and, generally speaking, innocent people. From the account of the missionaries, the ancient religion seems to have been the same with that of the Sandwich Islanders. On our return to the beach, one of the missionaries attended us. As we retraced our steps through the wood, the warbling of the birds, whose plumage was as

A782    Beagle Library:     Head, Francis Bond. 1826. Rough notes taken during some rapid journeys across the Pampas and among the Andes. London: John Murray.   Text

been since the first year of its creation. The whole country bears the noble stamp of an Omnipotent Creator, and it is impossible for any one to ride through it, without feelings which it is very pleasing to entertain; for although in all countries the heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handy work, yet the surface of populous countries affords generally the insipid produce of man's labour; it is an easy error to consider that he who has tilled the ground, and has

A545.2    Book:     Malthus, Thomas. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occassions. London: John Murray. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

prevented by means infinitely more cruel than those which result from the laws of private property, and the moral obligation imposed on every man by the commands of God and nature to support his own children. The first of these arguments has, I confess, always appeared to my own mind sufficiently conclusive. A state, in which an inequality of conditions offers the natural rewards of good conduct, and inspires widely and generally the hopes of rising and the fears of falling in society, is

A545.2    Book:     Malthus, Thomas. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occassions. London: John Murray. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

poor permanently a large share of all that is produced in the country. A common man, who has read his Bible, must be convinced that a command given to a rational being by a merciful God cannot be intended so to be interpreted as to produce only disease and death instead of multiplication; and a plain sound understanding would make him see that, if, in a country in which little or no increase of food is to be obtained, every man were to marry at eighteen or twenty, when he generally feels VOL. II

A545.2    Book:     Malthus, Thomas. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occassions. London: John Murray. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

maintain a family, it is an incontrovertible sign that their king and country do not want more subjects, or at least that they cannot support them; that, if they marry in this case, so far from fulfilling a duty to society, they are throwing an useless burden on it, at the same time that they are plunging themselves into distress; and that they are acting directly contrary to the will of God, and bringing down upon themselves various diseases, which might all, or the greater part, have been avoided

A545.2    Book:     Malthus, Thomas. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occassions. London: John Murray. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

the laws of nature, which are the laws of God, had doomed him and his family to suffer for disobeying their repeated admonitions; that he had no claim of right on society for the smallest portion of food, beyond that which his labour would fairly purchase; and that if he and his family were saved from feeling the natural consequences of his imprudence, he would owe it to the pity of some kind benefactor, to whom, therefore, he ought to be bound by the strongest ties of gratitude. If this system

A545.2    Book:     Malthus, Thomas. 1826. An essay on the principle of population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occassions. London: John Murray. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

is enhanced by affirming a lie before God, have, I confess, very different ideas of delicacy and morality from those which I have been taught to consider as just. If a man deceive a woman into a connexion with him under a promise of marriage, he has undoubtedly been guilty of a most atrocious act, and there are few crimes which merit a more severe punishment; but the last that I should choose is that which will oblige him to affirm another falsehood, which will probably render the woman that

A559.2    Beagle Library:     Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

hope of introducing arts and civilization among the people, and of improving the condition of the poorer classes. On one occasion, in a burst of enthusiasm, he said, if they will not become happy by their own efforts, they shall be made happy by force, by God they shall be happy. He laboured hard to overcome the prejudices of his ministers and other influential persons in favour of free commerce with all nations, and encouragement of foreigners: he did all the good he was able, but he was

A559.2    Beagle Library:     Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

worthy of notice: in the mountain ranges about Cuzco are heaps of stones similar to those known in Arabia, and continually accumulating by a somewhat similar practice, as every traveller, upon accomplishing the passage of certain difficult paths, is accustomed to rest himself a while, and throw a stone he has brought with him upon the heap, as an offering to the god Pachacamac, repeating at the time the word apachecta. I have just said that but few of the aboriginal customs of the Indians

A559.2    Beagle Library:     Miers, John. 1826. Travels in Chile and La Plata, including accounts respecting the geography, geology, statistics, government, finances, agriculture, manners and customs, and the mining operations in Chile. Collected during a residence of several years in these countries. 2 vols. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

instruct the people in all the occurrences and the motives which caused them, as desired by the governor, but he offers immediately to publish all the details and documents relating to these events, which shall be circulated throughout the state. God preserve you many years. Oct. 8, 1825. (Signed) JOAQUIM CAMPINO. [page] 51