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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 23: (search)
r chirography—whether you wrote mear el vado, or mear al vado. . . . . Mear el vado may signify, knocking away the very foundations on which you build. But quien sabe? The context, if there is one, might show. Agassiz is having his own way in Brazil as much as he ever had here. The Emperor does everything for him that he wants, gives him a steamer to go up the Amazon free of every possible charge, puts two engineers aboard who have surveyed the river, etc. I am sorry to see the death of ssion sees: Yet with an equal joy let me behold Thy chariot o'er that way by others roll'd I To Professor Louis Agassiz. Boston, U. S. A., January 14, 1866. my dear Agassiz,—You have written me three interesting and important letters from Brazil, and I have answered neither of them, partly from good reasons, partly from poor; neither worth remembering now. But I think I have done exactly what you meant I should do; I have used them in every way I could for the benefit of the Museum, and