Spain yesterday and to-day. By the author of 'Portugal'.Darton & Harvey, 1834 - 276 pagina's |
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Spain. CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. — Page 1 . A Departure - The Influence of the Inquisition in Spain , and the superior Progress of Knowledge in other Countries , since the Reformation . CHAPTER II . - Page 16 . Reformation in Spain , and its ...
Spain. CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. — Page 1 . A Departure - The Influence of the Inquisition in Spain , and the superior Progress of Knowledge in other Countries , since the Reformation . CHAPTER II . - Page 16 . Reformation in Spain , and its ...
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... INFLUENCE OF THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN , AND THE SUPERIOR PROGRESS OF KNOW- LEDGE IN OTHER COUNTRIES SINCE THE REFORMA- TION . RICHES , pleasant as they are , do not always give unmingled satisfaction . This truth was sensibly felt by Mr ...
... INFLUENCE OF THE INQUISITION IN SPAIN , AND THE SUPERIOR PROGRESS OF KNOW- LEDGE IN OTHER COUNTRIES SINCE THE REFORMA- TION . RICHES , pleasant as they are , do not always give unmingled satisfaction . This truth was sensibly felt by Mr ...
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... influenced . ” 66 " And I , " said Frank , am not fond of hor- rors , any more than my mother . I love to dwel on scenes < When Cheerfulness , a nymph of healthiest hue , Her bow across her shoulder flung , Her buskins gemm'd with ...
... influenced . ” 66 " And I , " said Frank , am not fond of hor- rors , any more than my mother . I love to dwel on scenes < When Cheerfulness , a nymph of healthiest hue , Her bow across her shoulder flung , Her buskins gemm'd with ...
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... influence of the Inquisition , by prohibiting books , has destroyed , in a great measure , the taste for reading ; and to this cause we must attribute the want of acquired information which is univer- sal in Spain , even amongst ...
... influence of the Inquisition , by prohibiting books , has destroyed , in a great measure , the taste for reading ; and to this cause we must attribute the want of acquired information which is univer- sal in Spain , even amongst ...
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... influence of religious zeal . The Mos- lems were the bitterest foes of the Christian creed . For several hundred years the Spaniards waged war with them , for the recovery of their A.D. 412 . + Saracen means the inhabitant of a desert ...
... influence of religious zeal . The Mos- lems were the bitterest foes of the Christian creed . For several hundred years the Spaniards waged war with them , for the recovery of their A.D. 412 . + Saracen means the inhabitant of a desert ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abassides ABENCERRAGES amusement ancient Andalusia appear Arabs astonishing attention beautiful Biscayan bull bull-fight Calle de Alcala Castille Catalonia Cathedral celebrated character church Columbus convent Cordova court Curtis dear Delville dress Edward Ellen English entered Escurial eyes father favourite feelings Ferdinand Ferdinand VII flock Frank French friars friends gave Grenada habits hand hear heart honour hundred inhabitants Inquisition inquisitors interest king laugh learned live look lumbus Madrid magnificent manner mantilla manufactory ment mind Moorish Moors mother mountains Murcia nation never Old Castille palace Palos papa persons Philip picador pleasure Prado protestant province racter religious remarkable round Salamanca scene seemed seen Segovia Seville sheep side Sierra Morena smile solemn Spain Spaniards splendid streets tain thing thought thousand tion Toledo took town travellers UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA Valencia Valér Valladolid walk wonderful wool young
Populaire passages
Pagina 4 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Pagina 3 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Pagina 51 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Pagina 33 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Pagina 4 - Each gift of nature, and each grace of art; With fatal heat impetuous courage glows, With fatal sweetness elocution flows; Impeachment stops the speaker's pow'rful breath, And restless fire precipitates on death.
Pagina 33 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Pagina 234 - When he had finished they sunk on their knees, and, raising their clasped hands to heaven, their eyes filled with tears of joy and gratitude, they poured forth thanks and praises to God for so great a providence, all present followed their example; a deep and solemn enthusiasm pervaded that splendid assembly, and prevented all common acclamations of triumph. The anthem...
Pagina 47 - A soulless thing, a spirit of the woods, He loves to commune with the fields and floods.
Pagina 148 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Pagina 172 - No withered witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew ; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew ! The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gathered flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid.