The Rights of the Sovereignty Vindicated: With Particular Reference to Political Doctrines of the Edinburgh Review, and of Other Periodical Publications (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Pedro, they proffer a series of melancholy reflec tions upon the prodigious difficulties to be over come by the patriots of Spain, in their present generous warfare; and notwithstanding the great advantages which had then been gained over tthe armies Of France, they forebode, that it will lead to the subjugation of the most gallant people in the world.

Formidable indeed are those difficulties; delu sive and treacherous 'to the gallant patriots of Spain, and to their generous allies the patriots of England, would be that counsel, which should promise an easy or Speedy termination to the ink portant warfare. The palm for which they con tend is placed upon a stupendous height, and guarded by that mighty power, which, ever watchful, and ever active, as yet has never known a failure of his gigantic purposes. It is secured by all sorts of obstacles and premunitions, which may indeed be surmounted by patience of labour, by endurance of hardship and privation, by sub mission to all sorts of peril and necessity, and by that unyielding firmness in contempt of disaster and defeat, wh1ch none; but heroes can acquire. It is only to be gained. By a struggle wub all man ner of d1fficulties, by a contempt of slaughter and devastation during a long probation of calamity and fearful enterprize. But the noble achievements made by the patriotic phalanx in their unimproved condition, and the lessons of experience taught by history in many a Similar conjuncture, may even yet afford us a fairer hope and a more consoling expectat1on.

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