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...te egalitarian and a successful politician. He is credited with the liberation from Spanish colonial yoke of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and... ...his friends to become an addict. But cocaine was popularly used long before Freud. Spanish discoverers of the New World, such as Amerigo Vespucci, ... ...espucci, tried it in Peru and reported enthusiastically back home in 1505. Both the Spanish crown and the church taxed coca production and accepted ... ... Columbus denied to his dying day that he detected a new continent. Indeed, the Spanish royal couple, Ferdinand and Isabella, twice rejected his... ... for 74 days. Filibuster is originally a Dutch word meaning "pirate, hijacker". In Spanish "filibustero" meant "freebooting" and applied to 16th ce... ... Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is known and loved today as one of the greatest opera composers ever. Suffice it to mention "Manon Lescaut" and "La Bo...

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..., and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish main and for centuries bid defiance to the armed fleets of all nations....

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...TY WHICH CHARACTERIZED THE PIRATES, MAROONERS AND BUCCANEERS WHO RAVAGED THE SPANISH MAIN AND FOR CENTURIES BID DEFIANCE TO THE ARMED FLEETS OF ALL... ...owards destroying the sacrificial altars -- A force sent against Cortez by the Spanish sovereign -- A forced march of brave fellows -- Cortez falls up... ... Spanish sovereign -- A forced march of brave fellows -- Cortez falls upon the Spanish force in the midst of a storm -- He compels Narvaez to acknowle... ... into a fatal trap -- A terrible slaughter at the breach -- Awful sacrifice of Spanish prisoners -- A spectacle that freezes the blood with horror -- ... ...rovers on desperate undertakings -- England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat of the English -- Capture of colonists -- ... ...sts have put it on the boards with all the accessories of magnificent scenery, composers have made it familiar to the lovers of music in more than on...

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...d, and set my old tales to some popular tune? But there have been too many composers, if that be the word, in the field before. The Highlands were ind... ...t of whom are accustomed to consider themselves as being, according to the Spanish phrase, “as good gentlemen as the king, only not quite so rich.” To...

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... knows best; and the Dream, I say again, is the responsible party. 4. “The Spanish Nun.”* —There are some narratives, which, though pure fictions from... ... of the heroine, and from the unsettled state of society at that period in Spanish America, that a reader the most credulous would at times be startle... ...urous, not essentially differing from the monotonous character of ordinary Spanish life. Suppose the case, therefore, that Kate’s memoirs had been thr... ...gress of the dispute threw the decision at length upon the archives of the Spanish Marine. Those for the southern ports of Spain had been transferred,... ..., were deluged with gold and silver coins, moidores, and dollars, from the Spanish 76 Memorials, and Other Papers mint of Mexico, etc. These, during ... ...ct of particular interest to the elder. When the sublime fugues of the old composers for the organ swelled upon the air, and filled the vast aisles of...

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...strument was ready, but the hand was not forthcoming. Neither is there any Spanish translation, a fact which can be more easily understood. The Inquis... ...s death, John Ozell, translator on a large scale of French, Ital- ian, and Spanish authors, revised Motteux’s edition, which he published in five volu... ...rdly are nothing less than monachal, and that there are of those that wear Spanish capes, who have but little of the valour of Spaniards in them. Ther... ...g. Changing then his clothes, he rode a Naples courser, a Dutch roussin, a Spanish jennet, a barded or trapped steed, then a light fleet horse, unto w... ...e the pike, played with the two-handed sword, with the backsword, with the Spanish tuck, the dag- ger, poniard, armed, unarmed, with a buckler, with a... ...gerating inventions, makers of jun- kets, fit disposers of cooling shades, composers of green arbours, and refreshers of wine. Jupiter, said Rondibili...

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...First of all, at starting, we have the inspiration (No. 1) to the original composers of the sacred books. That I grant, though distinguishing as to it... ...ge that we remember can do justice to the first of these acts, except that Spanish legend of the Cid, which assures us that, long after the death of t...

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...st vermin. The prototypic Don Juan, invented early in the XVI century by a Spanish monk, was presented, accord- ing to the ideas of that time, as the ... ...nd, those forces of middle class public opinion which hardly existed for a Spanish nobleman in the days of the first Don Juan, are now triumphant ever... ...repared and resolved or retarded or anticipated in the manner of the great composers, think they can learn the art of Palestrina from Cherubim’s treat... ... of vegetation: even a touch of aridity in the frequent patches of stones: Spanish magnifi- cence and Spanish economy everywhere. Not very far north o... ...paniard or a Scotchman. Probably a Spaniard, since he wears the dress of a Spanish goatherd and seems at home in the Sierra Ne- vada, but very like a ... ...trained. The fact that he speaks English is not unexpected in spite of the Spanish landscape; for with the exception of one man who might be guessed a...

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...ish,” Rafael replied; “there’s a splendid clown for eight bob; but for dat Spanish dress, selp ma Moshesh, Mistraer Lint, ve’d ask a guinea of any but... ...to his nation. All the airs which the Hebrew maid selected were written by composers of her race; it was either a hymn by Rossini, a polacca by Braham... ...nce de Mendoza. These bread rows; this unpopularity of Guizot; this odious Spanish conspiracy against my darling Montpensier and daughter; this feroci... ... so called, because it is five feet long) which is so well known among the Spanish armies—seeing, I say, this figure, the fellows retired, exclaiming,... ...ot fight, I ran away. I am six feet four—my figure is as well known in the Spanish army as that of the Count de Luchana, or my fierce little friend Ca... ...my own history, their laugh was changed into wonder. I read them (speaking Spanish more fluently than English) every word of my story. “But how is thi...