Spain and Portugal, Volume 4

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Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1832

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Pagina 21 - ... asked his opinion, he remained silent for some time, and when the reason of his silence was demanded he answered, " I am considering first whether it be better to speak or to hold my tongue.
Pagina 59 - In every branch of the polity and jurisprudence of the Gothic nations, we observe the veneration in which the decisions or determinations of twelve men were held. We have lost the intermediate links of the chain ; but when the constable is returned in the court leet of an English manor, by the oaths of the leet jury, it is certain that this humble though ancient constitutional officer derives his annual reign from the voices of such a band as, in days of old, placed the monarch of Norway on the throne....
Pagina 7 - God. As to the condition of the souls of the wicked, besides the opinions that have been already mentioned, the more orthodox hold that they are offered by the angels to heaven, from whence being repulsed as stinking and filthy, they are offered to the earth, and being also refused a place there, are carried down to the seventh earth, and thrown into a dungeon, which they call...
Pagina 62 - Franks inaugurated. The challenge resembles the defiance of the enemies of Hungary, hurled forth by the king on his coronation day. Then the adalid sheathed his sword ; and the king placed a pennon in his hand, saying, ' I grant unto thee that henceforward thou art to be an adalid.
Pagina 237 - Yaz en logar sano comarcha muy temprada : Ni la cueta verano, nen faz la envernada , De todas las bondades era sobreabondada : De los bienes del sieglo allí non mengua nada.
Pagina 196 - Castellana), now called, by way of distinction, the Spanish, doubtless had its origin before the Moorish conquest, in the northern and midland parts of the Peninsula.
Pagina 65 - ... knife in hand; had cut the lace of his helmet; and in another instant would have had his head off, had not the prince interfered. The prince then ordered him to be clothed, and sent to Messina. When the king of Aragon heard this, he ordered ten Frenchmen to be clothed, and sent them to the for" mer, saying, that for every one of his people whom he would set at liberty, he would give ten Frenchmen in exchange.
Pagina 205 - Hernando del Pulgar, — Cronica de los Senores Reyes Catolicos, Don Fernando y Dona Isabel...

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