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. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... ledgments of the world are due; and the quickness with which American trade has leapt forward from the time when the colonies won their freedom, until it has reached the pitch of greatness of which it now can boast, forms the best commentary on the policy which was so long pursued by every state, and ...
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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. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... ledgments of the world are due; and the quickness with which American trade has leapt forward from the time when the colonies won their freedom, until it has reached the pitch of greatness of which it now can boast, forms the best commentary on the policy which was so long pursued by every state, and demonstrates how European interests were vitally injured by the very jealousy with which they were guarded. But if Spaniards planted the germs of this system, theirs also it was to reap its bitterest fruit. It would be painful to linger over the abject spectacle which the nation offered under the last monarchs of the House of Austria. It was hardly less miserable, hardly less degraded during the century which followed the change of dynasty; yet the Bourbons imparted a faint life to the worn-out body, and a few tottering steps towards improvement were essayed, a few ameliorations effected, before the shock of French invasion came to infuse new ideas, and to sweep away in undistinguished ruin the good and evil of the ancient constitution. Napoleon presented himself to the inhabitants of the Peninsula, not as a master, but as a liberator; his acts may have belied his words, but no slight good was accomplished when the Inquisition fell, and when feudal rights, and the privileges of the Nobles, and private tribunals were cut away for ever from the affections of the people. If it be destined that Spain shall yet rise from the lowliness of her place among nations, and shall assume a position worthy of her past glory, and of that which is lofty in the intellect and generous in the character of her sons, she will reflect with shame that her own strength was unequal to commence the work of regeneration, and that the first impulse in her new career was...
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