 | Robert Watson, William Thomson - 1792 - 390 trang
...important office in the ftate; encouragement had been given to the moft minute and malignant inveftigation of their private conduct; and after the power of the barons, who had long aeted as their protectors , was reduced t they were expofed a detencelefs prey to the avarice and cruelty... | |
 | Robert Watson, William Thomson - 1818 - 304 trang
...that the faith which the Spanish princes had pledged to them when they submitted to their authority had been often violated, they had been from the beginning...malignant investigation of their private conduct ; and niter the power of the barons, who had long acted as their protectors, was reduced, they were exposed... | |
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... time, been used with greater kindness, or even with greater lenity and forbearance, it is probable that, sooner or later, these means would have been attended with the desired success. But, besides that, the faith which the Spanish princes had pledged... 