| Gatherings From Spain Contributor(s): Ford, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1544623348 ISBN-13: 9781544623344 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $16.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.03 lbs) 350 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To boast of Spain's strength, said the Duke of Wellington, is the national weakness. Every infinitesimal particle which constitutes nosotros, or ourselves, as Spaniards term themselves, will talk of his country as if the armies were still led to victory by the mighty Charles V., or the councils managed by Philip II. instead of Louis-Philippe. Fortunate, indeed, was it, according to a Castilian preacher, that the Pyrenees concealed Spain when the Wicked One tempted the Son of Man by an offer of all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them. This, indeed, was predicated in the medi val or dark ages, but few peninsular congregations, even in these enlightened times, would dispute the inference. It was but the other day that a foreigner was relating in a tertulia, or conversazione of Madrid, the well-known anecdote of Adam's revisit to the earth. |