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... particles various verbs are derived , that give great precision and strength to conversation . But what is truly surprising in this language is that it contains no irregular verb or noun . Every thing in it may be said to be regulated ...
... particles various verbs are derived , that give great precision and strength to conversation . But what is truly surprising in this language is that it contains no irregular verb or noun . Every thing in it may be said to be regulated ...
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... particles , which mark the number and case . They resemble the Greek nouns in having three numbers , the singular , the dual , and the plural , as will appear in the fol- lowing example : Singular . Nom . Cara , the city . Gen. Cara ...
... particles , which mark the number and case . They resemble the Greek nouns in having three numbers , the singular , the dual , and the plural , as will appear in the fol- lowing example : Singular . Nom . Cara , the city . Gen. Cara ...
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... particles ica or egen may be used affixed to the noun , or que placed between the adjective and substantive when ... particle no become negative , as tuenotu , not terrestrial ; quimnochi , ignorant . Although these adjectives have all ...
... particles ica or egen may be used affixed to the noun , or que placed between the adjective and substantive when ... particle no become negative , as tuenotu , not terrestrial ; quimnochi , ignorant . Although these adjectives have all ...
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... particle jod or doi , signifying more , and to the superlatives the adverbs cad or mu , as doichu , more limpid ; muliu , most limpid . The Chilian wants the diminutives and augmentatives , but these , as in the French , are supplied by ...
... particle jod or doi , signifying more , and to the superlatives the adverbs cad or mu , as doichu , more limpid ; muliu , most limpid . The Chilian wants the diminutives and augmentatives , but these , as in the French , are supplied by ...
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... particles . These characteristic par- ticles are applicable to all the moods , as well of active as of passive and ... particle am to the radical word , or to the denotement of time . This simple method will appear more clearly in the ...
... particles . These characteristic par- ticles are applicable to all the moods , as well of active as of passive and ... particle am to the radical word , or to the denotement of time . This simple method will appear more clearly in the ...
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admapu Angol ANN RADCLIFFE Antiguenu appeared appointed Arau Araucanians Arauco Archipelago arms arrival attack Author battle besieged Bio-bio Boards Brit called Canete canians Caupolican cavalry CHAP chief Chili Chilian Chiloé civil Colocolo command containing Copiapo Crit Cujo death defeated Don Garcia enemy English Engravings European expedition favour foolscap 8vo fortress garrison give governor Grammar History horse Huilliches hundred illustrated Indians inhabitants island Jago killed language large vols Lautaro LINDLEY MURRAY Lumaco manner Maúle military mountains nation natives neral nians notwithstanding observed occasion officers Osorno particles peace Pedro Pehuenches person Peru Peruvians Plates POEMS possess present Price 12s principal prisoners Promaucians provinces Puelches Puren rendered retired river ROBERT SOUTHEY royal Second Edition sent settlements shore siege soldiers Spain Spaniards tained tenses thousand tion Toqui tribes troops Tucapel Ulmenes Valdivia valiant valour verb Villagran Volume whence
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Page 388 - F., Travels in South America, during the years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804; containing a description of the Captain-Generalship of Caraccas, and an account of the discovery, conquest, topography, legislature, commerce, finance, and natural productions of the country; with a view of the manners and customs of the Spaniards and the native Indians, translated from the French, two volumes, London, 1807.
Page 193 - A detachment of cavalry was immediately sent under the guidance of this spy, and at day break made prisoner of that great man, but not till after a gallant resistance from ten of his most faithful soldiers, who would not abandon him. His wife, who never ceased exhorting him to die rather than surrender, on seeing him taken, indignantly threw towards him his infant son, saying, she would retain nothing that belonged to a coward. The detachment returned to the city amidst the rejoicings of the populace,...
Page 160 - There was one province, the population of which amounted, it is said, "to twelve thousand persons, of which number, not more than one hundred escaped with life." In accordance with the settlement enjoined by Valdivia, two officers of note, Alderete and one Francis Aiguirre, had precedence of Villagran in the government, but their absence at the time of the first viceroy's decease, left him without a rival. The return of Aiguirre to Chili threatened to involve...