The causes of the decline of Spain, the Stanhope prize essay, 1867

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Página 5 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth...
Página 1 - But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; These only with our law best form a king.
Página 5 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below ;" so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Página 27 - Spanish villages, all over Castile and Andalusia, had fallen into decay ; while those of the Morescoes increased and flourished ; and the Spanish farmers were unable to pay their rents, though they cultivated the most fertile parts of the country, while the Morescoes, who...
Página 13 - To a spectator of the sixteenth century no proposition could seem more clear than that the commercial supremacy of Europe was destined to be exercised by Catholicism.
Página 14 - The first notes of their wild national poetry come to us mingled with their war-shouts and breathing the very spirit of their victories...
Página 28 - Tunis, the silks of Almeria and Granada, the leather hangings of Cordova, the paper of Salibah ceased to be heard of.
Página 27 - ... ought, in the mean time, to be loaded with taxes for the maintenance of an army, sufficient to prevent any prejudice that might arise from permitting them to remain ; their numbers ought, as quickly as possible, to be diminished, by sending annually some thousands of their young men to the gallies and the mines, and Christians, acquainted with their arts, ought gradually to be substituted in their room. But a different course, he thought, ought to be pursued with regard to the Morescoes in the...
Página 15 - not merely love, not merely reverence, but absolutely adore him, and deem his commands so sacred, that they could not be violated without offence to God.
Página 27 - BOOK. the kingdom, all those unhappy consequences iv. might have been prevented, and the purity of the faith preserved. THE temporal as well as the spiritual interest of the king's Catholic and loyal subjects, required that the Morescoes should be expelled ; because, if they were not, there was much ground to apprehend they would ere long become masters of all the riches in the kingdom.

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