Letters Concerning the Spanish Nation: Written at Madrid During the Years 1760 and 1761 |
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... give more of their attention this way ; the fub- ject is not exhaufted , and the object is of much greater moment , than the dresses of one country , or the tunes of another ; than a the C the vineyards of this province , or the ...
... give more of their attention this way ; the fub- ject is not exhaufted , and the object is of much greater moment , than the dresses of one country , or the tunes of another ; than a the C the vineyards of this province , or the ...
Page ii
... give a new dish . THE writer , apprehending that his ftay in SPAIN would have been of much longer duration , had formed his original plan of a much larger extent , than that which is now laid before the pu- blic but as the war , which ...
... give a new dish . THE writer , apprehending that his ftay in SPAIN would have been of much longer duration , had formed his original plan of a much larger extent , than that which is now laid before the pu- blic but as the war , which ...
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... give him a right to call it his own : ' which , he flatters himself , will be al- lowed to him in the following letters . As to the form of Letters , in which this collection appears , it was owing to this circumftance ; great part of ...
... give him a right to call it his own : ' which , he flatters himself , will be al- lowed to him in the following letters . As to the form of Letters , in which this collection appears , it was owing to this circumftance ; great part of ...
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... give the reader the following extracts from bis work . ) TH HE Roman empire in this country lafted fomething more than 400 years after the commencement of the Christian æra : but the Spanish history is connected with the Roman for near ...
... give the reader the following extracts from bis work . ) TH HE Roman empire in this country lafted fomething more than 400 years after the commencement of the Christian æra : but the Spanish history is connected with the Roman for near ...
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... ALONZO V. who married the daughter of FERDINAND the great , to whom fome give the title of Emperor , and who was firft King of CASTILE . OF Or this long period , in which the chriftian princes X HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION .
... ALONZO V. who married the daughter of FERDINAND the great , to whom fome give the title of Emperor , and who was firft King of CASTILE . OF Or this long period , in which the chriftian princes X HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION .
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affift againſt ALBERONI ALCALA DE HENARES alfo almoſt alſo Ambaffadors annually antient Arabic ASTORGA becauſe befides BRITAIN BURGOS CASTILE CATALONIA Catholic CHARLES Chriftian church Commiffioners confequently confifts CORUNNA court crowns per month defign Duke Earl Emperor English Epiftolæ ESCURIAL eſtabliſhed expence faid fame fatire fecond feems fent FERDINAND feven feveral fhall fhew fhips fhould fide filk fince firft firſt folio fome foon fpirit ftill fubjects fuch greateſt Hiftoria himſelf houſe inquifition Iterum Juan King of SPAIN King's laft laſt leagues likewife MADRID Majefty Maravedis Marquis maſter meaſures Memb minifter moft moſt muſt obfervations occafion paffed perfon PHILIP PHILIP II phyfic phyſician prefent Prince Prince of ASTURIAS publiſhed quæ Queen reaſon Roman royal SALAMANCA SARDINIA ſay ſee SEGOVIA SEVILLE ſome Spaniards Spanish ſtate ſtill thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe TOLEDO treaty uſe VALENTIA Vellon
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Page 37 - THE power of this tribunal is now declining very vifibly, and feems haftening to its fall; for the prefent King of SPAIN has taken a bolder ftep to humble the inquifition, than any of the PHILIPS or CHARLES'S who went before him. The inquifitor-general having thought proper, laft year, to prohibit a liturgy which the king had licenfed, without confulting his majefty about it...
Page 343 - Ihew, convenience being liitle confidered : thus vou will pafs through ufually two or three large apartments of no ufe, in order to come at a fmall room at the end, where the family fit. This is the general ftate of the houfes there ; not but there are fome very magnificent palaces, built chiefly by viceroys, returned from their governments, and by the principal grandees : thefe have courts, and fortes cockers, though the others have not.
Page 110 - ... well avoid the aim, and are liable to be every moment overthrown with their horfes, if their attendants by their fide do, not affift them.
Page 27 - V. and his minifters, firft laid them afide, becaufe they could get no money from them : and having obtained a grant of the fale of the bull of the...
Page 109 - In the fame manner the bull was tempted to engage the other cavaliers, and always .with the fame fuccefs : till having received the honourable wounds from their lances, he was encountered by the other men on foot : who, after playing with him, with an incredible agility, as long as they think proper...
Page 344 - The houfes in general look more like prifons, than the habitations of people at their liberty ; the windows, befides having a balcony, being grated with iron bars, particularly the lower range, and fometimes all the reft. A...
Page 108 - Then came a coach with some of the great officers ; and next came the king and queen in a very sumptuous coach of blue, with all the ornaments of massive silver, and a crown at the top : the trappings of the horses were likewise silver, with large white plumes.
Page 324 - He looks minutely into moft circumftances He has made with his own hands, every part of a foldier's drefs, in order to be a judge of the true expence of their uniforms. He told the foreign Minifters one day, that he had made a pair of (hoes, Not indeed, fays he, very good Ihoes, but fuch as might be walked in...
Page 352 - ... by the fall of the roofs, and the reft burnt alive. One's imagination can fcarce form a fcene of confufion, horror, and death, more dreadful than this. 'After the...
Page 251 - Part of it is owing to the extreme avarice and extortion of our own merchants, who, not contented with moderate profits, have kept up the prices of their goods beyond their juft proportion, and thereby opened a door for the French and Dutch to underfell us at the Spanifh markets.