"Vargas" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... credit, of the Sociedad Economica de Amigos del Pais de Filipinas, founded by the energetic governor Basco y Vargas in 1781, that it extended its many-sided interests to the destruction of the devastating hordes of locusts that visit ...
— The Indolence of the Filipino • Jose Rizal
... under date the 11th of October 1552, Titian's first letter to Philip of Spain. There is mention in it of a Queen of Persia, which the artist does not expressly declare to be his own work, and of a Landscape and St. Margaret previously sent by Ambassador Vargas ("... il Paesaggio et il ritratto di Sta. Margarita mandatovi per avanti"). The comment of the biographers on this is that "for the first time in the annals of Italian painting we hear of a picture which claims to be nothing more than a landscape, etc." ...
— The Later works of Titian • Claude Phillips
... estas Doktoro A. Vargas, kiu plezure donos pluajn sciigxojn pri gxi. CXar multaj gesamideanoj estas dirintaj, ke Esperanto pli similas je la Hispana ol je alia ajn lingvo, mi presigis kelkajn liniojn el tiu cxi anonco en la lingvo de Cervantes. CXu Esperantistoj, kiuj ne konas la Hispanan lingvon, ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 4 • Various |
