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I. 78 WAR OF GRANADA. PART more exalted than those of mere loyalty. The chivalrous heart of the Spaniard did homage to her, as to his tutelar saint ; and she held a control over her people, such as no man could have acquired in any age, — and probably no woman, in an age and country less romantic. suspect this acute and candid critic the times, or weighed the unquali- would have been slow to adopt, fied testimony borne by contempo- had he perused the correspondence raries to its minute accuracy. in connexion with the history of
