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A generous southern territory, flowing with wine and oil, and all the richest gifts of a bountiful nature-splendid cities the new and daily expanding Madrid, rich in the trophies of the most artistic period of the modern world Cadiz, as populous at that day as London, seated by the straits where the ancient and modern systems of traffic were blending like the mingling of the two oceans Granada, the ancient wealthy seat of the fallen Moors Toledo, Valladolid, and Lisbon, chief city of the recently-conquered kingdom of Portugal, counting, with its suburbs, a larger population than any city, excepting Paris, in Europe, the mother of distant colonies, and the capital of the rapidly-developing traffic with both the Indies these were some of the treasures of Spain herself.
A generous southern territory, flowing with wine and oil, and all the richest gifts of a bountiful nature-splendid cities the new and daily expanding Madrid, rich in the trophies of the most artistic period of the modern world Cadiz, as populous at that day as London, seated by the straits where the ancient and modern systems of traffic were blending like the mingling of the two oceans Granada, the ancient wealthy seat of the fallen Moors Toledo, Valladolid, and Lisbon, chief city of the recently-conquered kingdom of Portugal, counting, with its suburbs, a larger population than any city, excepting Paris, in Europe, the mother of distant colonies, and the capital of the rapidly-developing traffic with both the Indies these were some of the treasures of Spain herself.
A generous southern territory, flowing with wine and oil, and all the richest gifts of a bountiful nature-splendid cities the new and daily expanding Madrid, rich in the trophies of the most artistic period of the modern world Cadiz, as populous at that day as London, seated by the straits where the ancient and modern systems of traffic were blending like the mingling of the two oceans Granada, the ancient wealthy seat of the fallen Moors Toledo, Valladolid, and Lisbon, chief city of the recently-conquered kingdom of Portugal, counting, with its suburbs, a larger population than any city, excepting Paris, in Europe, the mother of distant colonies, and the capital of the rapidly-developing traffic with both the Indies these were some of the treasures of Spain herself.
I doubt very much, in spite of all the just abuse which has been lavished upon Bonaparte, whether there is any one of his conquered countries the blotting out of which would be as beneficial to him as the destruction of Ireland would be to us: of countries I speak differing in language from the French, little habituated to their intercourse, and inflamed with all the resentments of a recently-conquered people.
A generous southern territory, flowing with wine and oil, and all the richest gifts of a bountiful nature-splendid cities the new and daily expanding Madrid, rich in the trophies of the most artistic period of the modern world Cadiz, as populous at that day as London, seated by the straits where the ancient and modern systems of traffic were blending like the mingling of the two oceans Granada, the ancient wealthy seat of the fallen Moors Toledo, Valladolid, and Lisbon, chief city of the recently-conquered kingdom of Portugal, counting, with its suburbs, a larger population than any city, excepting Paris, in Europe, the mother of distant colonies, and the capital of the rapidly-developing traffic with both the Indies these were some of the treasures of Spain herself.
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