A Short History of Spain

uisition of sources of wealth so boundl

emory of that place, called the city they founded Zacynthus, which name in time became Saguntum. Now they sent more expeditions and founded more cities on t

ed with so many jealous rivals in the field

me down like the

were gleaming in

was partially broken a

ere, who says all things better than anyone else, makes Othello find in the fatal handkerchief "confirmation strong as proofs from holy writ." Where can be found "confirmation" stronger than these "proofs from holy writ"? And where a more magnificent picture of the luxury, the sumptuous Oriental splendor of this nation at that period, than in Ezekiel, chapters xxvii., xxviii.? What an eloquent apostrophe to Tyre-"thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, a merchant of the people, for many isles."-"With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee

that city as its center, which drew together all their scattered possessions into a Punic confederacy. This was composed of the islands of Sardinia, Corsica, part of Sicily, the Balearic Isles, an

n. Carthaginian merchants and miners were in Tartessus, and were planting cities and colonies throughout the peninsula, and a torre

o its primitive form,-Kartah-duba,-meaning "an important city." While Isabella, the name most famous in Spanish annals, has a still greater antiquity; and was none other than Jezebel-after the beautiful daughter of the King of Sidon (the "Zidoneans"), who married Ahab, and lured him to his downfall. And we

est were expanding. In the year 332 B.C. the siege and destruction of Tyre, predicted five hundred years before by Isaiah, was accomplished by Alexander the Great

ung Roman Republic was not trade, but conquest. A bitter enmity existed between the two nations. Rome was determined to break this grasping old Asia

on a plan of vengeance which should make of Italy a Punic province. His people were strong upon the sea, but for this war of invasion they must have a