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Voyage to South America: Performed by Order of the American Government, in ... - Page 362
by Henry Marie Brackenridge - 1819
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The Reports on the Present State of the United Provinces of South America ...

United States. President (1817-1825 : Monroe), Caesar Augustus Rodney, John Graham - 1819 - 384 pages
...were equally called to them by the laws, they were appointed only in rare instances, and even then not without satiating the cupidity of the court by...viceroys that have governed in this country but four have been Americans ; and of six hundred and ten captainsgeneral and governors all but fourteen have...
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The Reports on the Present State of the United Provinces of South America ...

United States. President (1817-1825 : Monroe), Caesar Augustus Rodney, John Graham - 1819 - 378 pages
...equally called to them by the laws, they were appointed only in rare instances, and even then njot without satiating the cupidity of the court by enormous...viceroys that have governed in this country but four have been Americans ; and of six hundred and ten captainsgeneral and governors all but fourteen have...
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The North American Review, Volume 19

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 586 pages
...equally called to them by the laws, they wore appointed only in rare instances ; and even then, nnt without satiating the cupidity of the court by enormous sums of money. Of one h undred anil serentii viceroys, that hare governed in this country, but four of them hare been American*...
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Extracts from a Journal: Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and ..., Volume 2

Basil Hall - 1824 - 422 pages
...KXCLCSIOX OF AMERICANS. 237 appointed only in rare instances, and even then, not until they had satiated the cupidity of the court by enormous sums of money....one hundred and seventy Viceroys that have governed this country, only four have been Americans; and of six. hundred and ten captain-generals and governors,...
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The Modern Traveller: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and ..., Volume 6

Josiah Conder - 1830 - 394 pages
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Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 12

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 566 pages
...were equally entitled to them by the laws, they were appointed only in rare instances ; and even then, not without satiating the cupidity of the court by enormous sums of money. Of the one hundred and seventy viceroys who have governed in this country, but four of them were Americans...
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Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican: A Historical, Geographical ..., Volume 1

Brantz Mayer - 1852 - 478 pages
...were equally entitled to them by the laws, they were appointed only in rare instances, and even then, not without satiating the cupidity of the court by...sums of money. Of one hundred and seventy viceroys who governed on this continent but four were Americans ; and of six hundred and ten Captains General...
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Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and republican, Volume 1; Volume 66

Brantz Mayer - 1852 - 492 pages
...were equally entitled to them by the laws, they were appointed only in rare instances, and even then, not without satiating the cupidity of the court by...sums of money. Of one hundred and seventy viceroys who governed on this continent but four were Americans; and of six hundred and ten Captains General...
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The Congressional Globe

United States. Congress - 1854 - 716 pages
...were equally called to them by the laws, they were appointed only in rare instances, and even then not without satiating the cupidity of the Court by...them have been. Americans; and of six hundred and ten Captains General and Governors, all but fourteen are Spaniards. The same took place in every post of...
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