Do we say spain or france

spain 6900 occurrences

Italy, France, Spain and two South American republics will soon sign compact in Washington.

Prince Benedetto d'Abruzzi, believed to be in Washington at present, has absolute power to sign for Italy, France and Spain.

A few hundred years ago Italyor Romewas stripped of her power; only recently the United States dispelled the illusion that Spain was anything but a shell; and France!

The British ambassador, you will observe, is clothed sanely and modestly, as befits the representative of a great nation; but coming on down by way of Spain and Italy, they get more gorgeous.

We do know that in Spain you were Señora Cassavant, in Paris Mademoiselle d'Aubinon, in London Miss Jane Kellog, and here Miss Isabel Thorne.

"It's odd, you know, the number of princes and blue-bloods and all that sort of thing one can find knocking about in Italy and Germany and Spain.

At Vigo, among the merchandize taken from the shipping there destroyed, were prodigious quantities of gross snuff, from the Havannah, in bales, bags, and scrows (untanned buffalo hides, used with the hairy-side inwards, for making packages), which were designed for manufacture in different parts of Spain.

He died May 6, 1705, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Joseph, who died while the Spectator was being issued, and had now been followed by his brother, the Archduke Charles, whose claim to the crown of Spain England had been supporting, when his accession to the German throne had not seemed probable.

Gracian, in Spain, became especially popular as a foremost representative of his time in transferring the humour for conceitscultismo, as it was calledfrom verse to prose.

"All is rejoicing here; illuminations and fireworks and feux de joie for the capture of the Chesapeake and a victory in Spain.

"The Marquis Wellington has achieved a great victory in Spain, and bids fair to drive the French out very soon.

Thus, the Pilgrim Fathers of New England,the grandest profugi of all time,or even the bold adventurers of Spain, would have been moved only by intense suffering, in some form, to exchange their homes for a wilderness.

Then in this same tribuneship, when Caesar while on his way into Spain had given him Italy to trample on, what journeys did he make in every direction!

Caesar departs to Spain, having granted you a few days delay for making the payment, on account of your poverty.

After some time he at last went into Spain; but, as he says, he could not arrive there in safety.

Thrice did Caesar fight against his fellow-citizens; in Thessaly, in Africa, and in Spain.

In the battle in Spain he even received a wound.

Were you at Narbo to be sick over the tables of your entertainers, while Dolabella was fighting your battles in Spain?

You went a great distance to meet Caesar on his return from Spain.

The volumes which have a bearing on the subject treated in this monograph are Bourne's Spain in America, Edward Channing's Jeffersonian System, F.J. Turner's Rise of the New West, and Hart's Slavery and Abolition.

John Jay, while New-York was yet a slave State, and himself in law a slaveholder, said in a letter from Spain, in 1786, "An excellent law might be made out of the Pennsylvania one, for the gradual abolition of slavery.

" In his letter while Minister at Spain, in 1786, he says, speaking of the abolition of slavery: "Till America comes into this measure, her prayers to heaven will be IMPIOUS.

[Sidenote: Claims of Spain to the possession of North America.]

In the year 1600 Spain was the only European nation which had obtained a foothold upon the part of North America now comprised within the United States.

Spain claimed the whole continent on the strength of the bulls of 1493 and 1494, in which Pope Alexander VI. granted her all countries to be discovered to the west of a certain meridian which, happens to pass a little to the east of Newfoundland.

france 20311 occurrences

Now, at the time when Henry IV. was born, in the year 1553, when Henry II. was King of France and Edward VI.

The Calvinists, as they were called, were a powerful party; in some parts of France they were in a majority.

But they were bitterly hated by the king and the princes of the house of Valois, and especially by the Duke of Guise and the Cardinal of Lorraine,the most powerful famlies in France,because they meditated to overturn, not the throne, but the old established religion.

During the whole reigns of the Valois Princes, treachery, assassinations, and bloody executions marked the history of France.

The Huguenots, although supported by the King of Navarre, the Prince of Condé, Coligny (Admiral of France), his brother the Seigneur d' Andelot, the Count of Montgomery, the Duke of Bouillon, the Duke of Soubise, all of whom were nobles of high rank, were in danger of being absolutely crushed, and were on the brink of despair.

when Henry IV. was a boy, and had no thought of ever being King of France.

A Protestant prince might mount the throne of France, and with him, perhaps, the ascendency of Protestantism, or at least its protection.

And then, when no more victims remained, the King and his court and his clergy proceeded in solemn procession to the cathedral church of Notre Dame, amidst hymns of praise, to return thanks to God for the deliverance of France from men who had sought only the privilege of worshipping Him according to their consciences!

Nor did the bloody work stop here; orders were sent by the Government to every city and town of France to execute the like barbarities.

by assassination, in 1589, his struggles for the next five years were more to secure his hereditary rights as King of France than to lead the Huguenots to victory as a religious body.

It might have been better for them had Henry remained the head of their party rather than become King of France, since he might not have afterwards deserted them.

I need not describe the successes of Henry, until the battle of Ivry, March 14, 1590, made him really the monarch of France.

All the successive changes which reforms and revolutions have wrought have been towards representative and constitutional governments,as in England and France in the nineteenth century.

In that state of society into which France was plunged during the regency of Marie de Médicis, and at which I have glanced, absolutism was perhaps a needed force.

These were the Huguenots, the nobles, and the parliaments,the Protestant, the feudal, and the legal elements of society in France.

They even invoked the aid of England, and thus introduced foreign enemies on the soil of France, which was high-treason.

So that Protestantism in France, after the fall of La Rochelle, never asserted its dignity, in spite of Bibles, consistories, and schools.

Such was the power and such was the vengeance of the cardinal on the highest personage in France.

The next most powerful personage in France was the Duke of Orleans, brother of the King, who sought to steal his sceptre.

In France the people had then no political aspirations; among them a Cromwell could not have arisen, since a Cromwell could not have been sustained.

Thus Richelieu, by will and genius, conquered all his foes in order to uphold the throne, and thus elevate the nation; for, as Sir James Stephen says, "the grandeur of the monarchy and the welfare of France with him were but convertible terms."

The services of Richelieu to France did not end with centralizing power around the throne.

While he built up absolutism in France, he did not alienate other governments; so that, like Cromwell, he made his nation respected abroad.

While vigorous in war, his policy was on the whole pacific,like that of all Catholic priests who have held power in France.

So his rigid rule tended to the elevation of France; absolutism proved necessary in his day, and under his circumstances.

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