 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 612 pages
...against the intolerable pretensions of insatiable and unsparing ambition. Colonel Napier proceeds: — 1 The Spanish character, with relation to public affairs,...as the mass all possess an absurd confidence that everything is practicable which their heated imaginations suggest. Once excited, they can see no difficulty... | |
 | 1828 - 268 pages
...Napier's description is yet more tranrhante, and serves as a key to much of his subsequent argument : ' The Spanish character, with relation to public affairs,...difficulty in the execution of a project, and the obstncles they ments, but bitter in bis anger, the Spaniard is patient under privations, firm in bodily... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 606 pages
...against the intolerable pretensions of insatiable and unsparing ambition. Colonel Napier proceeds: — ' The Spanish character, with relation to public affairs,...as the mass all possess an absurd confidence that everything is practicable which their heated imaginations suggest. Once excited, they can see no difficulty... | |
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1839 - 866 pages
...a nation, which for two centuries had groaned under the pressure of civil and religious despotism. The Spanish character, with relation to public affairs,...individual as well as the mass, all possess an absurd conGdence that everything is practicable which their heated imaginations suggest; once excited, they... | |
 | English literature - 1841 - 596 pages
...nation, which for two centuries had groaned under the pressure of civil and religious despotism. ' The Spanish character, with relation to public affairs,...that every thing is practicable which their heated imaginations suggest : once excited, they can see no difficulty in the execution of a project, and... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - France - 1841 - 668 pages
...nation, which for two centuries had groaned under the pressure of civil and religious despotism. " The Spanish character, with relation to 'public affairs,...as the mass, all possess an absurd confidence that everything is practicable which their heated imaginations suggest. Once excited, they can see no difficulty... | |
 | 1841 - 602 pages
...pressure of civil and religious despotism. ' The Spanish character, with relation to public affuirs, is distinguished by inordinate pride and arrogance....that every thing is practicable which their heated imaginations suggest: once excited, they can see no difficulty in the execution of a project, and the... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1842 - 542 pages
...a nation, which for two centuries had groaned under the pressure of civil and religious despotism. The Spanish character, with relation to public affairs,...that every thing is practicable which their heated imaginations suggest; once excited, they can see no difficulty in the execution of a project, and the... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply. Shakespere. XXV. THE Spanish Character, with relation to public affairs,...as the mass, all possess an absurd confidence that everything is practicable which their heated imagination suggests ; once excited they can see no difficulty... | |
 | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1862 - 590 pages
...nation, which for two centuries had groaned under the pressure of civil and religious despotism. • The Spanish character, with relation to public affairs,...as the mass all possess an absurd confidence that everything is practicable which their heated imaginations suggest ; once excited, they can see no difficulty... | |
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Dilatory and improvident, the individual as well as the mass, all possess an absurd confidence that every thing is practicable which their heated imaginations suggest; once excited, they can see no difficulty in the execution of a project, and the obstacles... 
