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- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 146
- ISBN-10: 1500362468
- ISBN-13: 9781500362461
- Format: 21.6 x 28 x 0.8 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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Whether we take the pictures of the inimitable Cervantes, or of that scarcely less meritorious author from whom Le Sage has borrowed his immortal tale, for our guides; whether we confide in the graver legends of history, or put our trust in the accounts of modern travellers, the time has scarcely ever existed when the inns of Spain were good, or the roads safe. These are two of the blessings of civilization which the people of the peninsula would really seem destined never to attain; for, in all ages, we hear, or have heard, of wrongs done the traveller equally by the robber and the host. If such are the facts to-day, such also were the facts in the middle of the fifteenth century, the period to which we desire to carry back the reader in imagination.
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- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 146
- ISBN-10: 1500362468
- ISBN-13: 9781500362461
- Format: 21.6 x 28 x 0.8 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
Whether we take the pictures of the inimitable Cervantes, or of that scarcely less meritorious author from whom Le Sage has borrowed his immortal tale, for our guides; whether we confide in the graver legends of history, or put our trust in the accounts of modern travellers, the time has scarcely ever existed when the inns of Spain were good, or the roads safe. These are two of the blessings of civilization which the people of the peninsula would really seem destined never to attain; for, in all ages, we hear, or have heard, of wrongs done the traveller equally by the robber and the host. If such are the facts to-day, such also were the facts in the middle of the fifteenth century, the period to which we desire to carry back the reader in imagination.
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