The Bible in Spain: Or, The Journeys, Adventures and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula, Том 1John Murray, 1843 - Всего страниц: 391 |
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Стр. 251 - 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. The population of Constantinople is extraordinary enough, but to form it twenty nations have contributed — Greeks, Armenians, Persians, Poles, Jews,...
Стр. 20 - 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 me a rational answer, though on all other matters their replies were sensible enough ; indeed, nothing surprised me more than the free and unembarrassed manner in which the Portuguese peasantry sustain a conversation, and the purity of the language in which they express their thoughts, and yet few of...
Стр. 179 - Mother. — She wants no one to provide for her, my London Caloro, she can at any time provide for herself and her Ro. She can hokkawar, tell baji, and there are few to equal her at stealing a pastesas.
Стр. 226 - ... ignorant of the country, who are a foreigner, an Englishman !" " How is it that you know me to be an Englishman ?" demanded I, much surprised. " That is no difficult matter," replied the figure ; " the sound of your voice was enough to tell me that.
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 me...
Стр. 169 - Who knows more of the real Moors than myself ? About forty years ago I was with my ro in Ceuta, for he was still a soldier of the king, and he said to me one day, ' I am tired of this place where there is no bread and less water, I will escape and turn Corahano ; this night I will kill my sergeant and flee to the camp of the Moor.
Стр. 170 - Do so,' said I, my chabo,' and as soon as may be I will follow you and become a Corahani.' That same night he killed his sergeant, who five years before had called him Calo and cursed him, then running to the wall he dropped from it, and amidst many VOL.
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. 241 - ... with a gold chain round his neck, and morocco slippers on his feet. His secretary, a fine intellectual looking man, who, as I was subsequently informed, had acquired a name both in English and Spanish literature, stood at one end of the table with papers in his hands.
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.