Scenes and Adventures in Spain: From 1835 to 1840, Volume 2Richard Bentley, 1845 |
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afterwards Amurrio appeared Aragon arms arrived artillery attack balconies Barcelona Basque batteries Baztan Berga Bergara Bilbao Cabrera called Carlist battalions Carlist officers Caspe castle Catalonia cavalry cave Cervéra chapel church civil Colonel Wylde comfort command Convention defended depôt Don Carlos Duke Duke's Durango Ebro enemy entered Ermita escort Espartero excellent extensive fire fortified French Fuéros garrison Governor ground Guipuzcoan handsome head-quarters heights honour horses hospital hundred Igualada inhabitants la Victoria ladies Lérida Logroño Madrid Majesty Manresa marched Maroto military Monroyo Morella morning mountain Navarre Navarrese night Oñate Orduña Oxalatéros parapets party passed peace plaza poor Princess of Beira prisoners proceeded provinces quarters Queen Cristina Queen-Regent Queen's army Queen's forces Queen's troops returned river Segre road royal scene Señor side soldiers Spain Spanish staff street strong surrender took town Urdax Valencia Victoria village vivas whilst whole wounded zamarra Zaragoza
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Page 385 - For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs : "But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven...
Page 386 - He shall pour the water out of his buckets, And his seed shall be in many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag And his kingdom shall be exalted.
Page 92 - America, established by the officers of the revolutionary army in 1783, 'to perpetuate their friendship, and to raise a fund for relieving the widows and orphans of those who had fallen during the war.
Page 331 - I am called upon, I, who have not left untried any means for avoiding the arrival of the day of such a terrible trial, which might for ever compromise social order, cause torrents of blood to be shed, dislocate an army which renders us respectable, and deprive us of the fruits of the signal glories which have annihilated the hosts with which the rebel Don Carlos hoped to usurp the throne, and raise up scaffolds to sacrifice those who defended the throne, and obtained victory. For this reason, and...
Page 177 - ... would pay the most devout attention. It was a solemn and a touching spectacle when the priest, clothed in his vestments, elevated the host in the air, amid the clangour of the military music ; the soldiers presenting arms, groups of officers bending the knee ; the peasants, men and women, devoutly kneeling and crossing themselves, and the sun shedding a gorgeous lustre over the whole.
Page 373 - Everywhere in the United States we find an increasing disposition upon the part of the people to "take the law into their own hands" as they say, where there have been flagrant failures of justice, and inflict, by mob law, that punishment which should alone be the function of the courts. The causes for the extraordinary increase of crime in the United States are due partly to the tolerant attitude of the people toward the...
Page 333 - ... withdrawn from me. Docs my blood, shed in battle, my constant anxiety for, and my whole existence devoted to the consolidation of the throne and to the happiness of my country, and, in short, the history of my military life — do these circumstances count for nothing in your majesty's opinion ? It is necessary that I should now give a proof of my fidelity to what I have sworn to, by gratifying, perhaps, the base desires of those men who, bereft of the titles which I am proud of holding, have...
Page 304 - ... professional labors, as indeed he did his whole life, to the service of the poor and needy. During the late civil war, he served as chairman of the war-committee, and few persons any where did more than he towards filling up the ranks of the regiments, or providing for the families of the soldiers. The widows and orphans of those who had fallen in the field were peculiarly his care, and he spared neither strength nor substance in affording them relief. Wherever, indeed, there was any good work...
Page 354 - They are brave, intrepid, sometimes rash, obstinate in adhering to their schemes, and often successful cessful in vanquishing, by their steady perseverance, obstacles which would appear insurmountable to others. The Aragonese are haughty, intrepid, ambitious, tenacious of their opinions, and completely prejudiced in favour of their country, their customs, and themselves, but prudent, judicious, able to appreciate foreign merit, good politicians, good soldiers, and zealous for their laws and privileges....