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gPANfS.I1 OIIARACTElt", 107tÎ;es.o~?::tf>nlip6rature; hastens to leave bouses t1ie Q!iPly de~,no.l:of whichagainstsùch a climate conslsts in paper windows, and where thE1;onlyrcsource is cowering ove1' thepestiferous brazero, which the Splniard,envélopeùin!/his cloak,rarelydeigns to approach. vVe have lloticedhimat ll'iJstâbleabove the wants.atlfa gr~tifications of othe!' men. St:i'll,f:t tr:tlestoic, heap!peafi eq:u;ally u;paffected bye.iXteriurassault, perfectlyresignet to wbat hecannot mend, a climate and the seas it, his habits of œconomicallife, aIl hold tast tooFteRlorallink,.......the digtlityof man. ln the article of œcollomics, iti~it~beobsel7\~eà, tl1e8paniarà's tabl~ is lit5ally hisboard. In wayA~lbe«>~~ng;tWi(j)ttfesselssl1ppo:rtabu11dleof cane 1'Od8,. spreadout toHis:1/f A.bout>thé>tSitios,ànd alsoin towns, is seen here and there written oyer the ddor ..of a privatèbous.e, ".Agui s,c~uisa;dfJ. cpm(!r,"" Bere food is dressed;" indicating that ~. man who hasroouey in bis poeket is insured against starving for so much. A.t the price of about four reais, aip\ttteofthisby?no mèans nl.i.!~ps~d';\gui$âdQistbeterm) fare, perhaps sheep's tongues stewed,.>with brf\ad,is obt~ined,()r;seut,;"h~f~re(!uiJ;e? This, e!\ten by the gloom of a larnp, and washeddown by a glass of .~ater,;~o~stitut~sthe evening cornforts of a philosophie Spaniard, who would.. eotlsiderthe ·imputation ofennuiundcl' sneh cireumstancesan insult. He affûrds the only instanceV1..1n~It1~nmitu;r~ of that înestimablepossession, indcpendence, wbi,ch, unless it cxists in the mincI. . • . .. . t'IN . ,is to be sought in vain, belollging to man; nnsupported and tmfofltel'ed by the aidand resource ofliterature.l' 2