Revelations of Spain in 1845, by an English resident [T.M. Hughes].Bradbury and Evans, 1845 |
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Página 50 - Toóos los extremo» negros , La cola revuelta y larga , Duro el lomo , el pecho crespo , La piel sembrada de manchas.
Página 262 - Magistrates, and advocates of two years' standing. Officers of the army of a certain standing, whether on service or retired. Physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries of two years' standing. Qlt will be observed that Bachelors in Medicine can practise here.] Architects, painters, and sculptors, with the title of academicians in any academy of the Fine Arts. Professors, and masters in any educational establishment supported by the public funds. Besides the disqualifications already specified, are those...
Página 184 - ... local name for codfish, but so celebrated as to have found a place in the works of Cervantes. Oysters and muscles are largely consumed, being picked up around the fortifications by halfnaked boys and men, or conveyed in cargoes from the coast of Portugal. CHAPTER XVIII. CADIZ AND ITS BAY. THERE is a melancholy, to a reflecting mind, overhanging the aspect of Cadiz from its bay — the fair city just rising above the water's edge, and ready to be engulfed (a fate that, probably enough, awaits...
Página 214 - Moaris, 360 miles in circumference. No such energy is required of them, because most likely they will not display it, nor are they required to imitate the monumental grandeur of their Moorish ancestors, who have left behind them in many an Alcazar, fort, and tower, such proofs of their indomitable industry. All that is demanded of them is to sink a few wells, and set a few oxen more in motion. CHAPTER XXII. THE NATIONAL MILITIA — THE GALI.EGOS.
Página 206 - ... here are entirely patriarchal, and the land is invariably held on easy terms. Leases, in one sense of the term, there are none, but merely simple written agreements; and the land, since the establishment of the Constitutional form of government, being exempt from the payment of tithes, the farmer's position, where he is possessed of the least energy, is invariably comfortable. The hidalgo class, or nobility and gentry, usually hold their possessions in capite from the Crown, or, in rare instances,...
Página 310 - ... score of persons are seated round a table, in a cafe, or under a thick vine-trellis, or in the centre of a wide patio beneath its canvas shade, and the clearest-tongued youth and best reader of the party, is chosen to declaim the article as a violent speaker might deliver his harangue in the Cortes, or a passionate preacher his sermon, with cross in hand, during Holy Week. This is one way of appealing to the reason! The trial by jury is likewise a trial of the feelings, upon all political questions...
Página 184 - ... great Spanish empire dropped asunder some twenty years since, Cadiz, more than any portion of the kingdom, was paralysed by the shock. Since the declaration of freedom in South America, and the proclamation of the Constitution in September, 1820, the victory gained by the Columbian army in 1821, and the recognition of the independence of Columbia, Peru, and Mexico in the following year, the shipments of specie and of bar gold, which were the heirloom of southern Spain, have been transferred to...
Página 364 - Andalucía ; a cada uno conforme a la obligación antigua y usanza de los concejos, que era venir la gente a su costa el tiempo que duraba la comida que podían traer a los hombros, (talegas las llamaban los pasados, y nosotros ahora mochilas).
Página 288 - ... whole of the Carlist War, and the revolutions which succeeded it, the Eco del Comercio, under the management of Paz Garcia, and the editorial guidance of Lopez, Caballero, and Ayllon, exercised a most powerful influence, and was conducted with splendid ability. The Eco was the Journal des Debats and Times of Madrid, with the difference that it was much more democratic ; and this journal it was that crushed the Estatuto Real, prepared the way for the revolution of 1837, and contributed to expel...
Página 46 - Admirada está la corte del airoso brío y gracia, porque ningún lance pierde y mil voluntades gana. En este tiempo la suerte a la postrera le llama, porque sale un bravo toro, famoso entre la manada, no de la orilla...