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The Bible in Spain
from Uncollected Prose, Dial Essays 1843
The Bible in Spain, or the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman
in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula. By GEORGE BORROW. Author
of The Gipsies in Spain.
"This is a charming book, full of free breezes, and mountain torrents, and pictures
of romantic interest. Mr. Borrow is a self-sufficing man of free nature, his mind is
always in the fresh air; he is not unworthy to climb the sierras and rest beneath the cork
trees where we have so often enjoyed the company of Don Quixote. And he has the merit,
almost miraculous to-day, of leaving us almost always to draw our own inferences from what
he gives us. We can wander on in peace, secure against being forced back upon ourselves,
or forced sideways to himself. It is as good to read through this book of pictures, as to
stay in a house hung with Gobelin tapestry. The Gipsies are introduced here with even more
spirit than in his other book. He sketches men and nature with the same bold and clear,
though careless touch. Cape Finisterre and the entrance into Gallicia are as good parts as
any to look at.
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