Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1914 |
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Page 50
... Spain had been one long Crusade . After fighting Mussulmans in the Old World , she began to fight heathens in the New . It was under the authority of a Papal bull that her children steered into unknown seas . It was under the standard ...
... Spain had been one long Crusade . After fighting Mussulmans in the Old World , she began to fight heathens in the New . It was under the authority of a Papal bull that her children steered into unknown seas . It was under the standard ...
Page 51
... Spain will be at no loss to understand . He would still be a soldier ; he would still be a knight errant ; but the soldier and knight errant of the spouse of Christ . He would smite the Great Red Dragon . He would be the champion of the ...
... Spain will be at no loss to understand . He would still be a soldier ; he would still be a knight errant ; but the soldier and knight errant of the spouse of Christ . He would smite the Great Red Dragon . He would be the champion of the ...
Page 52
... Spain and the schools of France by his penances and vigils . The same lively imagination which had been employed in picturing the tumult of unreal battles , and the charms of unreal queens , now peopled his solitude with saints and ...
... Spain and the schools of France by his penances and vigils . The same lively imagination which had been employed in picturing the tumult of unreal battles , and the charms of unreal queens , now peopled his solitude with saints and ...
Page 55
... Spain and Italy was un- sparingly employed in her support . The Inquisition was armed with new powers and inspired with a new energy . If Protestantism , or the semblance of Protestantism , showed itself in any quarter , it was ...
... Spain and Italy was un- sparingly employed in her support . The Inquisition was armed with new powers and inspired with a new energy . If Protestantism , or the semblance of Protestantism , showed itself in any quarter , it was ...
Page 64
... France , then governed by a priest , against Catholic Spain . William the Third , the eminently Protestant hero , was at the head of a coalition which included many Catholic powers , and which was 64 Macaulay's Essays.
... France , then governed by a priest , against Catholic Spain . William the Third , the eminently Protestant hero , was at the head of a coalition which included many Catholic powers , and which was 64 Macaulay's Essays.
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