Travels through Portugal and Spain, during the Peninsular War / by William Graham, Esq. ; with engravings.

  • Graham, William
Date:
1820
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Travels through Portugal and Spain, during the Peninsular War / by William Graham, Esq. ; with engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. After a slumber of ages, and an abject submission to a yoke of priestcraft which degraded the Spanish name below’ tile standard of the human character, Spain has assumed an imposing attitude, which renders every fact connected witlitliat country deeply interesting to the whole civilized world. The Editor of this Journal has therefore great satisfac¬ tion in submitting to his readers tw^o original works on Spain—one performed by a gentleman connected w’ith tlie Commissariat attached to the British army in the late war, and the other a Sketch of the state of Spain on cer¬ tain interesting points, but valuable as the result of recent observation. Neither of them were written for the public eye, but on that account they will be deemed more valuable ; because it too often happens that Travels w’ritten for publication, are accommodated to public prejudices, and assume a for¬ mality of style and manner incompatible with the pleasure afforded by this species of composition, when it results from the unsophisticated feelings of the w’riter, derived from local circumstances.
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