journey

224 A JOURNEY FROM
Ma1 - a0a - ambition to equal the conquerors of
the worlcl in the vaft plan of their
kings of the houfe of Auítria; and
the large ítrides taken by them in
the 16th and 17th century towards
a fecond uni-verfal monarchy.
guage, Drefs, To this day they bear indelible
and Manners
preferved in m arks of a Román origin in their
Spam. O
language, drefs, and domeftic uteníils;
the former has preferved more of the
Latin idiom, grammar, and pronun-
ciation, than any nation in Europe,
not excepting the prefent inhabitants
of Italy ; in fo much that you may
write whole fentences of puré Spaniíh,
compofed entirely of Latin words.
They only have retained the ufe of
the Román Toga: ít is well knownthat
the Romana had two dreíTes; in the
houíe