The Bible in Spain: Or, The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula, Том 1

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J. Murray, 1843
 

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Стр. 288 - ... 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 - ... 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, the latter...
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. 169 - Ah, a fine people are the Corahanoes. I often wish myself in their chim once more." " 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...
Стр. 170 - and as soon as may be I will follow you and become a Corahani.
Стр. 228 - I live much in the same way as I believe my forefathers lived ; certainly as my father did, for his course has been mine. At his death I took possession of the herencia, for I was his only child. It was not requisite that I should follow any business, for my wealth was great ; yet, to avoid remark, I followed that of my father, who was a longanizero. I have occasionally dealt in wool: but lazily, lazily — as I had no stimulus for exertion. I was, however, successful in many instances, strangely...
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. 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. 191 - Let us go and join them, for, as you say, it is doleful work wandering about at night amidst rain and mire.' We dismounted and entered what I now saw was a forest, leading the animals cautiously amongst the trees and brushwood. In about five minutes we reached a small open space, at the farther side of which, at the foot of a large cork-tree, a fire was burning, and by it stood or sat two or three figures ; they had heard our approach, and one of them now exclaimed, ' Quien vive!' 'I know that voice,'...
Стр. 234 - Indeed, we are not a numerous people, and there are few provinces of Spain which contain more than twenty families. None of us are poor, and those among us who serve, do so more from choice than necessity, for by serving each other we acquire different trades. Not unfrequently the time of service is that of courtship also» and the servants eventually marry the daughters of the house. We continued in discourse the greater part of the night ; the next morning I prepared to depart. My companion, however,...

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