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The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain, by George Borrow, Edited by Thomas J. Wise This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain Author: George Borrow Editor: Thomas J. Wise Release Date: July 20, 2009 [eBook #29469] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER TO THE BIBLE IN SPAIN*** Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made. [Picture: Cover of pamphlet] [Picture: Facsimile of last page of pamphlet] A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER TO THE BIBLE IN SPAIN _Inspired by_ FORD'S "HAND-BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN SPAIN." BY GEORGE BORROW LONDON: PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 1913 PREFATORY NOTE In 1845 Richard Ford published his _Hand-Book for Travellers in Spain and Readers at Home_ [2 Vols. 8vo.], a work which still commands attention, and the compilation of which is said to have occupied its author for more than sixteen years. In conformity with the wish of Ford (who had himself favourably reviewed _The Bible in Spain_) Borrow undertook to produce a study of the _Hand-Book_ for _The Quarterly Review_. The following Essay was the result. But the Essay, brilliant as it is, was not a 'Review.' Not until page 6 of the suppressed edition (p. 25 of the present edition) is reached is the _Hand-Book_ even mentioned, and but little concerning it appears thereafter. Lockhart, then editing the _Quarterly_, proposed to render it more suitable for the purpose for which it had been intended by himself interpolating a series of extracts from Ford's volumes. But Borr
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