Travels in Spain: Containing a New, Accurate, and Comprehensive View of the Present State of that Country, Volume 3G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1789 - Spain |
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Page 34
... covered with fortifications , which ap- pear to be useless and neglected . The officers of the revenue here present them- felves a fecond time . Farther within the province of Ca- talonia , the country becomes more plea- fant and ...
... covered with fortifications , which ap- pear to be useless and neglected . The officers of the revenue here present them- felves a fecond time . Farther within the province of Ca- talonia , the country becomes more plea- fant and ...
Page 40
... covered with wood and verdure . Among the trees are the pine , the chef- nut , the beech , fir , and green oak : the fine and well cultivated plains of Tarragona , Cerdagna , Vic and Urgel pro- duce abundance of corn , wine , and ve ...
... covered with wood and verdure . Among the trees are the pine , the chef- nut , the beech , fir , and green oak : the fine and well cultivated plains of Tarragona , Cerdagna , Vic and Urgel pro- duce abundance of corn , wine , and ve ...
Page 46
... orange , violet , green and blue ; one of the particularities , and not the least important , of this mountain is , that it is in part covered with shrubs is , 46 THE PRESENT STATË fteepest points of the mountain, and no ...
... orange , violet , green and blue ; one of the particularities , and not the least important , of this mountain is , that it is in part covered with shrubs is , 46 THE PRESENT STATË fteepest points of the mountain, and no ...
Page 47
... covered with shrubs and plants : the top is fhaded by a fo- rest of pines , and the environs produce excellent wine . Several quarries of marble , jafper , ala bafter , and mines of filver , lead , iron , tin , alum , falt and vitriol ...
... covered with shrubs and plants : the top is fhaded by a fo- rest of pines , and the environs produce excellent wine . Several quarries of marble , jafper , ala bafter , and mines of filver , lead , iron , tin , alum , falt and vitriol ...
Page 65
... covered with bushes , and termi- nated by the fea . You meet with fome remains of fortifications , called the Hof- pitalet . The part of it in the best pre- servation serves at present for an inn : there is a Latin inscription in gothic ...
... covered with bushes , and termi- nated by the fea . You meet with fome remains of fortifications , called the Hof- pitalet . The part of it in the best pre- servation serves at present for an inn : there is a Latin inscription in gothic ...
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Page 365 - Seville, in the moment the proceffion pafled by. Amongft the other canons he perceived the murderer of his father. At the fight of this man, filial affection, rage and defpair got fo far the better of his reafon, that he fell furioufly upon the prieft, and ftabbed him to the heart.
Page 365 - ... him to the heart. The young man was feized, convicted of the crime, and immediately condemned to be quartered alive. Peter, whom we call the Cruel, and whom the Spaniards, with more reafon, call the Lover of Juftice, was then at Seville. The affair came to his knowledge ; and, after learning the particulars, he determined to be himfelf the judge of the young Ihoemaker.
Page 364 - ... his tafte, the canon became furious, and feizing one of the tools of the fhoemaker, gave him with it fo many blows upon the head as laid him dead upon the floor. The unhappy man left a widow, four daughters, and afon, fourteen years of age, the eldeft of the indigent family.
Page 364 - They made their complaints to the chapter; the canon was profecuted, and condemned not to appear in the choir for a year. The young fhoemaker having attained to man's eftate, was fcarcely able to get a livelihood; and, overwhelmed with wretchednefs, fat down on the day of a proceffion, at the door of the cathedral of Seville, in the moment the proceffion pafted by.
Page 364 - An unfortunate fhoemaker to whom he applied, after quitting many others, having brought him a pair of...
Page 316 - Plaza di Antonio, Martin, and that of the fquare named Puerta del Sol. The others are not more magnificent though lefs ridiculous. The water of all thefe fountains is excellent ; and the air of Madrid, though the weather be variable and uncertain, extremely pure. It was this purity of the air and excellent quality of the water which induced Philip II, and his fucceflbrs to fix their refidence 5n this city.
Page 348 - Madrid (alle et mundo, Where' Madrid is, let the world be silent. One of their authors has written a book, which has for its title, Solo Madrid es corte, There is no other court than Ma-; drid.
Page 188 - There is no other god but God, and Mahomet is his prophet;" after which they kiss the superior's hand and retire.
Page 266 - Granada is faid to be 2808 years before Chrift. We know that in the time of the Romans it was a municipal colony. « , A defcription in Latin of Granada, fuch as it was, in 1560, written by a merchant at Antwerp, , named George Hofnahel, who travelled into Spain, is to be found in the work, entitled Civitates...
Page 503 - The critical obfervations it contains are betides offered with fo much modefty, that they cannot but be acceptable to every nation that is a friend to truth, and which would not be offended but by an exaggeration of its defecls.