 | François Joseph Pons - Indians of South America - 1806 - 390 pages
...priest or monk, they are then sufficiently accomplished for any line or profession. Decency, however, in their opinion, debars them from agricultural pursuits,...treat the mechanical arts with sovereign contempt. If they wear the military dress, it is merely out of ostentation; if they make bad translations from... | |
 | François Raymond J. de Pons - 1807 - 572 pages
...priest or monk, they are then sufficiently accomplished for any line or profession. Decency, however, in their opinion, debars them from agricultural pursuits,...treat the mechanical arts with sovereign contempt. If they wear the military dress, it is merely out of ostentation ; if they make bad translations from... | |
 | 1807 - 572 pages
...priest or monk, they arc then sufficiently aecor.-.u'ishcd for any line or profession. Decency, however, in their opinion, debars them from agricultural pursuits,...treat the mechanical arts with sovereign contempt. If they wear the military dress, it is merely out of ostentation ; if they make bad translations from... | |
 | James Biggs - Venezuela - 1808 - 356 pages
...whose pretensions are not so great wish to be notaries, scriveners or clerks." A military rank is an object of rivalry. A sword is their dear companion....them from agricultural pursuits and enjoins them to tre.it the mechanical arts with sovereign contempt. They are charged with an extravagant passion for... | |
 | James Biggs - Venezuela - 1808 - 328 pages
...whose pretensions are not so great wish to be notaries, scriveners or clerks." A military rank is an object of rivalry. A sword is their dear companion....opinion, debars them from agricultural pursuits and enjoin* them to treat the mechanical arts with sovereign contempt. They are charged with an extravagant... | |
 | James Biggs - Venezuela - 1810 - 406 pages
...whose pretensions are not so great wish to be notaries, scriveners or clerks." A military rank is an object of rivalry. A sword is their dear companion....charged with an extravagant passion for distinction r But the French traveller thinks that a happy revolution of opinion in these respects is on the eve... | |
 | James Biggs - Venezuela - 1812 - 334 pages
...whose pretensions are not so great wish to be notaries, scriveners or clerks." A military rank is an object of rivalry. A sword is their dear companion....respects is on the eve of being accomplished, and every tiling announces that the succeeding generation will exhibit a spectacle of a moral amelioration, achieved... | |
 | James Biggs - Venezuela - 1812 - 334 pages
...whose pretensions are not so great wish to be notaries, scriveners or clerks." A military rank is an object of rivalry. A Sword is their dear companion....arts with sovereign contempt. They are charged with aa extravagant passion for distinction. But the French traveller thinks that a happy revolution of... | |
 | Alexander Walker - Colombia - 1822 - 844 pages
...priest or monk, they are then sufficiently accomplished for any line or profession. Decency, however, in their opinion, debars them from agricultural pursuits,...treat the mechanical arts with sovereign contempt. If they wear the military dress, it is merely out of ostentation : if they make bad translations from... | |
 | Alexander Walker - Colombia - 1822 - 846 pages
...priest or monk, they are then sufficiently accomplished for any line or profession. Decency, however, in their opinion, debars them from agricultural pursuits,...treat the mechanical arts with sovereign contempt. If they wear the military dress, it is merely out of ostentation : if they make bad translations from... | |
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Every -one is ambitious," says Dr. Sans, as quoted by Depons, " of becoming a lawyer, a priest or a monk. Those whose pretensions are not so great wish to be notaries, scriveners or clerks." A military rank is an object of rivalry. A sword is their dear... 