Sequel of The Policy of England Towards Spain: In Answer to the Earl of Carnarvon's Work Entitled "Portugal and Galicia" : to which is Prefixed an Answer to an Article in the Quarterly Review, No. CXV.James Ridgway and Sons, 1837 - 205 páginas |
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... wages no party war with her Majesty's Ministers " -that " he fights the battles of no party " -that " he is no partizan of Don Carlos , and no friend to despotic govern- ment , " Before we proceed further , we owe it to ourselves 72.
... wages no party war with her Majesty's Ministers " -that " he fights the battles of no party " -that " he is no partizan of Don Carlos , and no friend to despotic govern- ment , " Before we proceed further , we owe it to ourselves 72.
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... despotic in Biscay as it was in La Mancha , whenever and wherever it was worth its while to be so . If a traveller is met by a robber who demands his money , and the traveller says , No , I will rather die than let you take it but here ...
... despotic in Biscay as it was in La Mancha , whenever and wherever it was worth its while to be so . If a traveller is met by a robber who demands his money , and the traveller says , No , I will rather die than let you take it but here ...
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... despotic power ; they breathe a spirit of the bloodiest and blindest vengeance , and are quite unparalleled in modern history . We may hereafter think it our duty to lay a succinct history of them . before the British public , in order ...
... despotic power ; they breathe a spirit of the bloodiest and blindest vengeance , and are quite unparalleled in modern history . We may hereafter think it our duty to lay a succinct history of them . before the British public , in order ...
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... despotic Governments . " We are disinclined to doubt any thing proceeding from Lord Carnarvon , but we must at the same time regret that in every page of his work he should so woefully misrepresent his own opinions . Indeed if our ...
... despotic Governments . " We are disinclined to doubt any thing proceeding from Lord Carnarvon , but we must at the same time regret that in every page of his work he should so woefully misrepresent his own opinions . Indeed if our ...
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... has been con- firmed by various highly respectable British residents at Madrid , who had heard the details from Mr. Honan's own lips . Will any Englishman deny that a Government , K be it constitutional or despotic , has a right to 129.
... has been con- firmed by various highly respectable British residents at Madrid , who had heard the details from Mr. Honan's own lips . Will any Englishman deny that a Government , K be it constitutional or despotic , has a right to 129.
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adopted affairs Alcaldes alliance appears arms army authority Basque Provinces believe Bilboa Biscay Biscayan British Legion British Minister Carlist Castile Catalonia Charles IV circumstances civil commercial Constitution Cortes Crown Crown of Castile death declared decree deny despotic Don Carlos Duke of Angouleme England Europe exist fact favour Ferdinand force foreign France French fueros Granja Henningsen Hernani Holy Alliance Honan honour Infant influence Inquisition Irun Juntas King La Granja law of succession letter Lord Carnar Lord Carnarvon says Lord Eliot Lordship says Madrid Majesty Majesty's Mendizabal ment National Guard never officers opinion pamphlet Parliament party persons Philip political Pragmatic Sanction present principles privileges Quarterly Review Queen of Spain readers reply respect Royal Sebastian shew shewn Spanish Government Spanish nation Spanish question spirit statement supposed thing throne tion Tories tranquillity treaties of Utrecht treaty troops vernment Villiers Zumalacarregui
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Página 167 - The allies now plunged into the streets from all quarters, for O'Toole's attack was also successful, and at the other side of the town Pack's Portuguese, meeting no resistance, had entered the place, and the reserves also came in. Then throwing off the restraints of discipline the troops committed frightful excesses. The town was fired in three or four places, the soldiers menaced their officers, and shot each other ; many were killed in the market-place, intoxication soon increased the tumult, disorder...
Página 168 - Napier thus narrates the dreadful scene which ensued :—"Now commenced that wild and desperate wickedness which tarnished the lustre of the soldier's heroism. All, indeed, were not alike, for hundreds risked, and many lost, their lives in striving to stop the violence, but the madness generally prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations,...
Página 20 - Aragon por el orden de suceder señalado en aquella ley, y de lo contrario se han causado guerras y grandes turbaciones.
Página 168 - Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty, and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires bursting from the houses, the crashing of doors and windows, and the reports of muskets used in violence, resounded for two days and nights in the streets of Badajoz!
Página 168 - ... prevailed, and at last, the fury rising to an absolute madness, a fire was wilfully lighted in the middle of the great magazine, when the town and all in it would have been blown to atoms, but for the energetic courage of some officers and a few soldiers who still preserved their senses.
Página 168 - Now commenced that wild and desperate wickedness which tarnished the lustre of the soldiers' heroism. All, indeed, were not alike, for hundreds risked and many lost their lives in striving to stop the violence ; but the madness generally prevailed, and as the worst men were leaders here, all the dreadful passions of human nature were displayed. Shameless rapacity, brutal intemperance, savage lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and piteous lamentations, groans, shouts, imprecations, the hissing of fires...
Página 87 - No magistrate can violate that sanctuary ; no execution can be put into it, nor can his arms or his horse be seized ; he cannot be arrested for debt, or subjected to imprisonment upon any pretext whatever, without a previous summons to appear under the old tree of Guernica, where he is made acquainted with the offence imputed to him, and called upon for his defence ; he is then discharged on the spot, or bailed, or committed, according to the nature of the crime and the evidence adduced against him....
Página 63 - Russias, animated by the desire of stopping the effusion of blood, and of arresting the evils of all kinds which might arise from the continuance of such a state of things, have resolved to unite their efforts, and to regulate the...