This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... the Guadalete, of his probable vagant, statement cited by Zurita. escape and subsequent seclusion Tho ambassadors of James II. of among the mountains of Portugal, Aragon, in 1311, represented to the which have been thought worthy sovereign pontiff, Clement V., that of Spanish history, have found a of the 200 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... the Guadalete, of his probable vagant, statement cited by Zurita. escape and subsequent seclusion Tho ambassadors of James II. of among the mountains of Portugal, Aragon, in 1311, represented to the which have been thought worthy sovereign pontiff, Clement V., that of Spanish history, have found a of the 200,000 souls which then much more appropriate place in composed the population of Gran-the romantic national ballads, as ada there were not more than 500 well as in the more elaborate pro-of pure Moorish descent. Anales, ductious of Scott and Southey. tom. iv. fol. 314. 7 "Whatever curses," says an 8 The famous persecutions of eye-witness, whose meagre diction Cordova under the reigns of Abder-is quickened on this occasion into rahman II. and his son, which, to something like sublimity, --"what-judge from the tone of Castilian ever curses were denounced by the writers, might vie with those of prophets of old against Jerusalem, Nero and Diocletian, are admitted whatever fell upon ancient Babylon, by Morales (Obras, tom. x. p. 74) whatever miseries Rome inflicted to have occasioned the destruction upon the glorious company of the of only forty individuals. Most of martyrs, all these were visited upon these unhappy fanatics solicited the the once happy and prosperous, crown of martyrdom by an open but now desolated, Spain. Pa-violation of the Mahometan laws censia Chronicon, apud Florez, and usages. The details are given Espana sagrada, tom. viii. p. 292. by Florez in the tenth volume of The frequency of this alliance his collection, may be inferred from an extra-After the further progress of the Arabs in Europe had been checked by the memorable defeat at Tours, their energies, no longer allowed to expand in the career of conquest, recoiled on...
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