Letters from Spain. Joseph Blanco White

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       Joseph Blanco White

      Letters from Spain

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066154455

Table of Contents

       PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.

       LETTER I.

       LETTER II.

       LETTER III.

       A few Facts connected with the formation of the Intellectual and Moral Character of a Spanish Clergyman.

       LETTER IV.

       LETTER V.

       LETTER VI.

       LETTER VII.

       LETTER VIII.

       LETTER IX.

       MEMORANDUMS OF SOME ANDALUSIAN CUSTOMS AND FESTIVALS.

       JANUARY 20TH. SAINT SEBASTIAN’S DAY.

       ASH-WEDNESDAY.

       MID-LENT.

       PASSION, OR HOLY WEEK.

       PASSION-WEDNESDAY.

       THURSDAY IN THE PASSION WEEK.

       GOOD FRIDAY.

       SATURDAY BEFORE EASTER.

       MAY CROSS.

       CORPUS CHRISTI.

       SAINT JOHN’S EVE.

       SAINT BARTHOLOMEW.

       DETACHED PREJUDICES AND PRACTICES.

       FUNERALS OF INFANTS AND MAIDS.

       SPANISH CHRISTIAN NAMES.

       CHRISTMAS.

       LETTER X.

       LETTER XI.

       LETTER XII.

       LETTER XIII.

       APPENDIX TO LETTERS III. AND VII. [56]

       AN ACCOUNT OF THE SUPPRESSION OF THE JESUITS IN SPAIN.

       NOTES.

       NOTE A.

       NOTE B.

       NOTE C.

       NOTE D.

       NOTE E.

       NOTE F.

       NOTE G.

       NOTE H.

       NOTE I.

       NOTE K.

PREFACE

       TO THE

       FIRST EDITION.

       Table of Contents

      Some of the following Letters have been printed in the New Monthly Magazine.

      The Author would, indeed, be inclined to commit the whole collection to the candour of his readers without a prefatory address, were it not that the plan of his Work absolutely requires some explanation.

      The slight mixture of fiction which these Letters contain, might raise a doubt whether the sketches of Spanish manners, customs, and opinions, by means of which the Author has endeavoured to pourtray the moral state of his country at a period immediately preceding, and in part coincident with the French invasion, may not be exaggerated by fancy, and coloured with a view to mere effect.

      It is chiefly on this account that the Author deems it necessary to assure the Public of the reality of every circumstance mentioned in his book, except the name of Leucadio Doblado. These Letters are in effect the faithful memoirs of a real Spanish clergyman, as far as his character and the events of his life can illustrate the state of the country which gave him birth.

      Doblado’s