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...nd of seeing great crowds and large stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures—a class of efforts ... ...nno- cent voice. He had some charming rooms in Paris, deco- rated with old Spanish altar-lace, the envy of his female friends, who declared that his c... ...t’s the positive side? What’s the virtuous? What have you got besides your Spanish 376 The Portrait of a Lady lace and your Dresden teacups?” “I’ve a...

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...style of living kept the public in its past belief as to the wealth of the Spanish family. Natalie was now in her nineteenth year, but no proposal of ... ...tinguished the desires that some men might have had to marry the beautiful Spanish girl. Queen of every ball, ac- customed to flattery, “blasee” with ... ... more lively because the widow gave signs of the temperament which makes a Spanish woman and a Creole particularly noted. She had black eyes and hair,... ...le particularly noted. She had black eyes and hair, the feet and form of a Spanish woman,—that swaying form the movements of which have a name in Spai... ...talie, closely held to the heart of her mother, had re- ceived, like other Spanish women, an education that was solely religious, together with a few ... ...a pause, “the profession of notary has changed from what it was. Political revolutions now exert an influence over the prospects of fami- lies, which ...

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...torms, though they blow over divers times, yet may fall at last; and, as the Spanish proverb noteth well, The cord breaketh at the last by the weakest... ...ter wars shall you have none. It was generally conceived to be meant, of the Spanish fleet that came in ’88: for that the king of Spain’s surname, as ... ... forth fortune; certain deliveries of a man’s self, which have no name. The Spanish name, desemboltura, partly expresseth them; when there be not st... ...ng them, as far as the weakness of human judgment can give stay, to so great revolutions. When the religion formerly received, is rent by discords; an...

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...rence between the bull of Spain the bull of Nineveh, that, whereas, in the Spanish case, the bull rushes at the scarlet, in the Ninevite case, the sca... ... on the desert island. In the course of consider Charles Dickens 64 able revolutions of time, the celebrated Cocker was born, and died; Walkinghame,... ... evening classes for mathematics, logic, gram mar, music, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, attended by upwards of five hundred persons; but, bes... ...istant time when he might possibly bear some far off likeness to a certain Spanish archbishop whom Gil Blas once served. Nor will I stop to inquire wh... ... so dropped from my side one by one that I already, begin to feel like the Spanish monk of whom Wilkie tells, who had grown to believe that the only r...

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...d more naturally: “2nd Reg. Castille, Cavalry.” Then with marked stress in Spanish, “En las filas legitimas.” Mills was heard, unmoved, like Jove in h... ...these rifles and cartridges could be taken off quietly at night by certain Spanish fishing boats. In fact, salved for the Carlists, after all. He thou... ...tch of a boy, you know. He had finished his schooling and was a clerk in a Spanish commercial house of some kind, in Paris, and apparently had made it... ...ave come down with a crash at the moment of the final catastro- phe on the Spanish coast. And there was Therese herself de- scending the stairs, frigh... ... he didn’t arouse my compassion. He was swearing to himself, in French and Spanish, and I tried to soothe him by the assurance that we had not much fa... ...as scores to settle with half a dozen people, he says, and he clamours for revolutions to give him a chance.” “But why did you bring him here?” “I don...

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...the Mixed Slave Commission; where negroes, cap- tured out of slavers under Spanish colours, were detained provisionally, till the Commission should de... ... a question of Frank Scott’s, ‘I could find no national game in France but revolutions’; and the witticism was justified in their experience. On the f...

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...ain in America, and the loss of her great colonies. He had seen that these revolutions were accomplished almost without the shed- ding of blood, and h... ... the other towards the Equator – Valley of the Mississippi – Traces of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Co... ... the other towards the Equator – Valley of the Mississippi – Traces of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlantic Ocean where the English Co... ...an emi- gration which removed the elements of fresh discord and of further revolutions. On the contrary, everything was done to encourage it, and grea... ...he influence exercised by the executive power in the affairs of State. The revolutions of Poland were not solely attributable to the elective system i... ...re of the continent of America is very much lower than that of Europe. The Spanish Government formerly caused a certain num- ber of peasants from the ...

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... of exposing a life in mere gaiety of heart. Such was the gallantry of the Spanish knight who, while Fernando and Isabel lay before the Moorish city o... ...nso de Ojeda, who figured in 7 Yo n g e like manner upon the tower of the Spanish cathedral. The same daring afterwards carried him in the track of C... ... show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infantry origi- nally formed by the Great Captain, Gonzalo de Cordo... ...the control of the treasure of France; but a century of changes, wars, and revolutions has not blotted out the memory of the self-devotion of the chev... ...rom the Prince of Peace; and the door was shut upon him. He was a resolute Spanish Roman, a well-tried soldier, a man advancing in years, but he wept,... ...L BUENO UENO UENO UENO UENO 1293 1293 1293 1293 1293 IN THE early times of Spanish history, before the Moors had been expelled from the peninsula, or ...

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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,... ...of little practi- cal value. Lady Carbery had herself told me that the two revolutions went on simultaneously. He began to take an interest in literat... ...e- ful existence, through intercourse with religious philosophy. What vast revolutions (vast for the individual) within how narrow a circle! What blin... ..., were deluged with gold and silver coins, moidores, and dollars, from the Spanish 76 Memorials, and Other Papers mint of Mexico, etc. These, during ... ...from changes affecting religion, whether true or false, but from political revolutions. Here, therefore, lies the first blunder of the fathers, that t... ...ror which the T urks once inspired, it is amusing, and illustrative of the revolutions worked by time, to find it imputed, in the first place, to supe...

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...as little to do; having previously, in 1809, been sent Ambassa- dor to the Spanish Cortes, where there was an affinity to do, but no means of doing it... ...st now be dedicated to the English public—viz. a philosophic record of the revolutions of English History. The English Constitution, as proclaimed and... ...lication of it; and, at Mr. Wordsworth’s re- quest, I added a long note on Spanish affairs which is printed in the Appendix. The opinions I expressed ... ...h is printed in the Appendix. The opinions I expressed in this note on the Spanish character at that time much calumniated, on the retreat to Corunna ... ...ater cur, except in a state of disordered society, and during the cardinal revolutions of human history: where, however, they do concur, there it will...

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...on unparalleled; yet that was a trifle by comparison with the more fearful revolutions that were mining below the Church. By her own internal schisms,... ...hat she had suffered some deep personal affliction in connection with this Spanish war. Here now was the case of one, who, having formerly suf- fered,... ... and value ever accomplished. In fact, those are always the most operative revolutions which are brought about through so- cial or domestic changes. A...

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...s not reinstated in the Commissariat till 1823, when he was needed for the Spanish war. In 1830 he took office as the fourth wheel of the coach, at th... ...orders than is supposed, accounting for the conduct of the populace during revolutions. AT THE TIME when this Drama opens, if Cousin Betty would have ... ...not by any strange stroke of fortune, but by the force of circumstance. In revolutions, as in storms at sea, solid trea- sure goes to the bottom, and ...

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...ether I oppose Lambert to Monk, or Monk to Lambert, I shall have reconquered my paternal inheritance, without having cost my country a guinea, or my s... ...te the lazy memory of the host by this remark. “That is very possible,” replied he, smiling; “but it is so long ago!” and he bowed, and went out. “Tha... ...s himself revenues with his money, which he does not even touch. Here are three hundred and seventy-five livres which fall to me from heaven. I will g... ...kfasted between the Je- suit and Aramis, having the Dominican in front of him, and smiling particularly at the Dominican, whose jolly, fat face please... ...thos; how you gainsay your ori- gin and the destiny of your noble nature. Men of your stamp are created to continue, to the very last moment, in full ... ... your frankness, your 688 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 cool courage and your sound information, are the very man kings need to warn and direct them. Rem... ...ard progress, fearful to disgust the monarch whom such a dull star had formerly displeased. Let us see what was taking place during this memorable eve...

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...general good out of extremes, and brings all to its great end by perpetual revolutions, ver. 161 to 178. How a miser acts upon principles which appear... ...discovering the erroneous translations of the Common Prayer in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, &c. As for my genius, let Mr Cleland show better ... ...o teach the Latin tongue to Carr, Earl of Somerset; and that Gondomar, the Spanish ambassador, would speak false Latin to him, on purpose to give him ...

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...ntinent, kicked them over the Pyrenees and innocently crowed out some rich Spanish name. She asked herself at present if it had been a “real” belief t... ...r the Princess or the Prince or the Principino; she supported her, in slow revolutions, in mur murous attestations of presence, at all such times, an...

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.................. 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................................................... 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ...............................................................

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....................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN .................................................................. ...imes: so that, if knowing, we cannot at least feel the iden- tity of their revolutions. We were married, I have said, on the birthday—the seventeenth ... ...omalous? Yet the sun and the moon rise and set as usual upon the mightiest revolutions of empire and of worldly fortune that this planet ever beholds;... ...ct. 76 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers THE SP THE SP THE SP THE SP THE SPANISH NUN ANISH NUN ANISH NUN ANISH NUN ANISH NUN WHY IS IT THAT Adventur... ... basis of more than one narrative, not inac- curate, in French, German and Spanish journals of high au- thority. It is seldom the case that French wri... ...t in the year 1592, (but which night is a secret liable to 365 answers,) a Spanish ‘son of somebody,’* in the fortified town of St. Sebastian, receive... ...sance of Spain. He did, therefore, what in such cases every proud and lazy Spanish gentleman was apt to do—he wrapped the new little daughter, odious ... ...lime one. Who imagines that, because a Daniel or Ezekiel foresaw the grand revolutions of the earth, therefore they must or could have foreseen the li... ...med. I once walked for eighteen months in a circuit so confined that forty revolutions were needed to complete a mile. These I counted, at one time, b...

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... villainy the worst that has ever been imag- ined of the buccaneers of the Spanish Main. Captain Kidd would have marooned a modern T rust magnate for ... .... It is by producing such moments that we pro- duce violent and sanguinary revolutions, such as the one now in progress in Russia and the one which Ca...

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...y is loud, very harsh and peculiar, and may be likened to the sound of the Spanish gut- tural g, followed by a rough double r r; when utter- ing this ... ...es south of the estuary of the Plata. About fifty years ago, under the old Spanish government, a small colony was established here; and it is still th... ...uresque. The num- ber of inhabitants does not exceed a few hundreds. These Spanish colonies do not, like our British ones, carry within themselves the... ...ing asked the reason of this, 79 Charles Darwin the Indian said in broken Spanish, “First see the Si- erra.” About two leagues beyond this curious tr... ...ustly occupied it by force, in- stead of following the wise example of the Spanish Viceroys, who purchased the land near the older settlement of the R... ...etual congelation, was one chief cause of the several theo- ries of sudden revolutions of climate, and of over- whelming catastrophes, which were inve... ...inhabit- ants are, no province has suffered more from bloody and desperate revolutions. They boast here of rep- resentatives, ministers, a standing ar... ...bloody-minded tyrant is gone to his long account, Paraguay will be torn by revolutions, violent in proportion to the previous unnatural calm. That cou...

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...rling mark which is at present affixed to plate and bars of silver, or the Spanish mark which is sometimes affixed to ingots of gold, and which, being... ...verty, the advancing, stationary, or declining state of the society . Such revolutions in the public welfare, though they affect the general rates bot... ... cannot well be altered, at least for any consid- erable time, by any such revolutions. 124 The Wealth of Nations CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XI CH... ...ven the mines of Potosi not worth the working. Before the discovery of the Spanish West Indies, the most fertile mines in Europe may have afforded as ... ...imes of more opulence and improvement. Silver must certainly be cheaper in Spanish America than in Europe; in the country where it is produced, than i... ...ent where there never was any demand before. The greater part, too, of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, are altogether new markets. New Granada, t... ...xico and Peru have never furnished one single manufac- ture to Europe. The Spanish armies, though they scarce ever ex- ceeded five hundred men, and fr... ...vated, and most populous provinces of Europe. The ordinary 341 Adam Smith revolutions of war and government easily dry up the sources of that wealth ... ...nt secu- rity against any practices which cannot be avowed. Amidst all the revolutions which faction has ever occasioned in the government of Amsterda...

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...true, no age can restore a life, whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for ... ...ourse Leo X. and his successors followed, until the Council of Trent and the Spanish Inquisition engendering together brought forth, or perfected, tho... ...led either by the north of Cataio eastward, or of Canada westward, while our Spanish licensing gags the English press never so severely. But on the... ... the most effectual remedy that man’s prevention can use. For this authentic Spanish policy of licensing books, if I have said aught, will prove the m...