The Bible in Spain, Or, The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula, Том 1J. Murray, 1843 - Всего страниц: 391 |
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Стр. 288 - Swear to the constitution, you she-rogue," vociferated the swarthy sergeant. " Never!" said the spirited daughter of the Neapolitan Bourbons. " Then your cortejo shall die !" replied the sergeant. " Ho ! ho! my lads; get ready your arms, and send four bullets through the fellow's brain.
Стр. 251 - Petersburg has finer streets, Paris and Edinburgh more stately edifices, London far nobler squares, whilst Shiraz can boast of more costly fountains, though not cooler waters. But the population ! Within a mud wall, scarcely one league and a half in circuit, are contained two hundred thousand human beings, certainly forming the most extraordinary vital mass to be found in the entire world ; and be it always remembered that this mass is strictly Spanish.
Стр. 169 - How is this, mother?" said I. " Have you been in the land of the Moors ? " ' ' Twice have I been in their country, my Caloro — twice have I been in the land of the Corahai ; the first time is more than fifty years ago. I was then with the Sese (Spaniards) ; for my husband was a soldier. of the Crallis of Spain, and Oran at that time belonged to Spain. " "You were not, then, with the real Moors," said I, "but only with the Spaniards who occupied part of their country.
Стр. 119 - I gazed with reverence and awe upon the pile where the first colonies of Europe offered their worship to the unknown God.* The temples of the mighty and skilful Roman, comparatively of modern date, have crumbled to dust in its neighbourhood. The churches of the Arian Goth, his successor in power, have sunk beneath the earth, and are not to be found ; and the mosques of the Moor, the conqueror of the Goth, where and what are they ? Upon the rock, messes of hoary and vanishing ruin.
Стр. xii - I shall not attempt to answer ; but content myself with observing, that, amongst much that is lamentable and reprehensible, I have found much that is noble and to be admired ; much stern, heroic virtue ; much savage and horrible crime ; of low, vulgar vice very little, at least amongst the great body of the Spanish nation, with which my mission lay...
Стр. 167 - I followed the crone, who led the way into the town, which was ruinous and seemingly half deserted ; we went up the street, from which she turned into a narrow and dark lane, and presently opened the gate of a large dilapidated house. " Come in,
Стр. 19 - At the doors of village inns, at the hearths of the rustics, in the fields where they labour, at the stone fountains by the wayside where they water their cattle, I have questioned the lower class of the children of Portugal about the Scripture, the Bible, the Old and New Testament, and in no one instance have they known what I was alluding to, or could return...
Стр. 319 - It was in the south of Ireland, if I mistake not. Was it not there that I introduced you to the sorcerer who tamed the savage horses by a single whisper into their ear ? But tell me what brings you to Spain and Andalusia, the last place where I should have expected to find you ? Baron Taylor.
Стр. 181 - Can you not join yourselves with the black people who live in the despoblados? Yes, surely; and glad they would be to have among them the Errate from Spain and London. I am seventy years of age, but I wish not to die in this chim, but yonder, far away, where both my roms are sleeping. Take the chabi, therefore, and go to Madrilati to win the...
Стр. 111 - the great lord," during the Peninsular war. He said that there was a convent of nuns a little farther on, which he would shew me, and thereupon led the way to the southeast part of the wall, where stood a large dilapidated edifice. We entered a dark stone apartment, at one corner of which was a kind of window occupied by a turning table, at which articles were received into the convent or delivered out. He rang the bell, and, without saying a word, retired, leaving me rather perplexed ; but presently...