Revelations of Spain in 1845, Том 1H. Colburn, 1845 - 432 стор. |
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Сторінка 62 - Ol6zaga again placed himself before me, and fastened the bolt of that door. He caught hold of my dress, and obliged me to sit down. He seized my hand and forced me to sign. After this he left, and I retired to my apartment.
Сторінка 12 - Jamás tal creí de Rocinante, que le tenía por persona casta y tan pacífica como yo. En fin, bien dicen que es menester mucho tiempo para venir a conocer las personas, y que no hay cosa segura en esta vida.
Сторінка 253 - REPUBLICANS POLITICAL INTRIGUE. THE recipe for a Spanish Pronunciamiento is very simple. Buy over three or four officers and a dozen sergeants of a regiment. Give twenty dollars to each officer, and a four-dollar-piece to each of the sergeants ; give a peseta to a blind news-hawker, and a wellinvented tale of political rascality of any kind ; distribute a score of rusty guns and pistols among as many mauvais sujets ; appoint a particular hour for an explosion, and the thing is almost as infallibly...
Сторінка 223 - Spain of lanes and alleys ; there with a loose faja or red sash swathed round his waist, with leggings thrown wide open and displaying those muscular calves, with a short and tight-fitting jacket exhibiting to full advantage his amazing [breadth of shoulder and depth of chest, is the Mars and Massaniello of the party, prepared to take the lead of a popular army : and around and in the midst of every circle is the due proportion of Madrid Manolas, the viragos of metropolitan low life, discussing more...
Сторінка 80 - If they tell us that the word of the Queen is to be believed without question, I answer, No! There is either a charge, or there is none. If there be, that word is a testimony, like any other, and to that testimony I oppose mine.
Сторінка 328 - The rations consist almost entirely of beans, lard-sprinkled, and boiled in a huge puchero, with bread of the coarsest description. Upon food like this they are " food for powder," no more ; and, so far as military appearance and efficiency are concerned, to walk from end to end of the Neutral Ground of Gibraltar, is like passing to a new planet. Our author is very eloquent on Andalusian beauty, and moreover is pleasantly communicative of his own experience of the effects of Andalusian jealousy.
Сторінка 278 - Spain is, of all European countries, the most helplessly exposed to contrabandist operations. With an ill-paid and, sometimes, ragged army, and with revenue officers directly exposed to temptation by inadequate salaries, she has 500 miles of Portuguese frontier and, near 300 of Pyrenean; and with a fleet crumbled into ruins, and no longer of the slightest efficacy, she has 400 'miles of Cantabrian and 700 of Mediterranean coast. Four hundred thousand smugglers are constantly engaged in demolishing...
Сторінка 131 - He is one of the few exceptions to the general rule, that the more brilliant sons of Spain come from the south.
Сторінка iv - ... in detail. The country, under all its aspects, and the people in all the phases of their contradictory and bizarre character, pass before our eyes . Spain fighting and feasting, pronouncing and fraternising; Spain in the circus and in the senate-house, torturing bulls and baiting ministers; Spain in its hours of mad folly, and its rare moments of reflection.
Сторінка 328 - ... shoes. What the state of this army was ten or twelve years ago, an English author thus describes: The appearance of the Spanish troops is, to the last degree, unsoldierly. The sentry strolls to and fro on his beat, his shako almost falling off the back of his head, his gun slouched on his shoulders, singing outright a lively seguidilla with the most sans /ofon air in the world.