In fact, it was only a bridle-path on the edge of a precipice fifty to one hundred feet above the Laugen river.
He urged in his own defence: "I did my best, diligently, according to the counsel and means at hand, and according to what could be accomplished with those peasants.
Casi los paso y cuent[o u]nò á ùno the hiatus marks the deliberation with which the act is performed.
Varnhagen, in his Introduction to the Florilegio da Poesia Brazileira (Vol.
The homage paid to his name during the commemoration of the tercentenary of his death was not only a personal tribute but in part, too, a rectification of the national attitude toward the Jesuit company which he distinguished.
His Musica do Parnaso em quatro coros de rimas portuguezas, castelhanas, italianas e latinas, com seu descante comico reduzido em duas comedias was published at Lisbon in 1705.
And the contribution brought by the negroes and indigenous tribes are even poorer than the part that came to us from the Portuguese.
XI-77] Gomara says with regard to this: 'Religion de Nicaragua que casi es la mesma Mexicana.
Some of these followers seem not to have been quite so content as their master with their secluded way of life, and to have cast many a longing look to the pomps and vanities of the world they had left behind them.
Yet the bereavement seems to have had little power to soften his nature, or incline him to charity for the misconduct, or compassion for the misfortunes of others.
Before parting from him for ever, I will take a brief view of some peculiarities in his personal, rather than his political character, which has long since been indelibly traced by a hand abler than mine.
In the same proportion he was elated by the tidings of the victory of St. Quentin.
Such impressions are usually reciprocal; and Philip seems to have parted from the country with little regret.
This answer of Elizabeth furnishes the key to her success.
The women began to hurry out of the city; many of the men would have followed but for the interference of Cardinal Caraffa.
With this constancy of spirit, she united many feminine virtues.
The palace of the emperor, as the simple monks loved to call his dwelling, had hardly a better fate, though it came from the hands of Charles's own countrymen, the liberals of Cuacos.
When these conditions were reported to the duke, he coolly remarked, that "his holiness seemed to be under the mistake of supposing that his own army was before Naples, instead of the Spanish army being at the gates of Rome.
Feria, seeing the low state of Mary's health, was earnest with the council to secure the succession for Elizabeth.
Besides the important places which he had gained on the frontier of Picardy, he had won a signal victory in the field.
I like artichokes nearly |Me gustan casi tanto as well.
The winter in the |En el norte de España north of Spain is |el invierno almost as cold as |es casi tan frío in England.
Lafuente says that Ensenada was the restorer, and almost the creator, of the Spanish navy; 'de la cual fue el restaurador, y casi pudiera decirse el creador.
So I resolved that when I should have spent a year in that fastness I would send word to the priest at Casi by some of those who visited my hermitage, and desire him to come to me that I might seek absolution at his hands.
Before going he bade me seek him out at Casi at any time should any doubts assail me, or should I find that the burden I had taken up was too heavy for my shoulders.
Meanwhile, the good priest of Casi and Leocadia had departed, bearing with them a princely reward from the silent, kindly eyed Galeotto.
People rarely came my way, save for a few faithful women from Casi or Fiori who solicited my prayers in return for the oil and maize-cakes which they left me, and sometimes whole days would pass without the sight of a single human being.
Finding that I lived, but that he could not arouse me and that my icy coldness was succeeded by the fire of fever, he had covered me with my habit and his own cloak, and had gone down to Casi to fetch the priest and relate his story.
Her reply was couched in terms of evasive menace, for eighty-four years of freedom, under the protection of the Beni Casi of Aragon and the King of Leon, had taught her to regard herself as an enemy to be duly reckoned with.
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