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Title: The land of the Dons
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Williams, Leonard, b. 1871
Subjects: Civilization, Spanish Spain -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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said of all countries, excepting Spain, and ofSpain with more than equal, with superlativejustice ; for the Spain of the Hapsburgs—a periodsometimes regarded with romantic indulgence butlittle warranted by fair investigation—affords anappalling instance of the moral and material squalora misruled or neglected nation may attain to. Under the Philips was followed the pestilentexample set by Ferdinand the Catholic, of plead-ing that all wars and military expeditions wereprosecuted in the name of religion; although asearly in the seventeenth century as the accessionof Philip the Fourth, religion, as that word shouldbe understood, had almost ceased to exist. Wor-ship for worships sake had practically succumbed;and there only remained a species of monstrousidolatry, together with a series of grotesque specta-cular performances, ostensibly of an ecclesiasticalcharacter, but which, all evidence goes to show,were devised to amuse, and not improve, theirfrivolous participants and witnesses.
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(Tu face p. -TM \Fruiu a pho:opru, h b;i Laiirrvt. Murlrid, from the purtniit hii Valcizqiie:.^ PHILIP THE FOURTH. THE PAST OF THE PRESENT. 279 There is no reason, in this connexion, to doubtthe veracity of the following passage, a descriptionby the Countess DAulnoy of the repulsive usagesof the disciplinants— They appeared to me a very loathsome spec-tacle ; on seeing the first of them I thought Ishould faint, nor do I understand how a sightwhich causes so horrible an impression can seemexpedient to anyone. A man will approach youso closely that when he smites himself he sprinklesyour dress with his blood, and this is considered aform of gallantry. For the infliction of the lashes in a becomingmanner and the direction of the blood to thedesired spot, there is a code of rules, as well asprofessors, and gentlemen who learn from them asthough they were studying dancing and fencing. The disciplinants dress themselves in a thintunic which reaches from head to foot, falling innarrow fold

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