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Quintana (q.v.). His views began to modify after the rising at La Granja, and this tendency towards conservatism, which became more marked on his See also:

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment as private secretary to the See also:

Queen See also:

REGENT (from Lat. regere, to rule)

Regent, finds expression in his Lecciones de derecho politico (1837). Alarmed by the proceedings of the See also:

French revolutionary party in 1848–1849, Donoso Cortes issued his Ensayo sobre el catolicismo, el liberalismo, y el socialismo considerados en See also:

sus principios fundamentales (1851), denouncing See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason as the enemy of truth and liberalism as leading to social ruin. He became See also:

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador at See also:

Paris, and died there on the 3rd of May 1853. The Ensayo has failed to See also:

ARREST (Fr. arrester, arreeter, to stop or stay)

arrest the See also:

MOVEMENT

movement against which it was directed, and is weakened by its extravagant paradoxes; but, with all its rhetorical excesses, it remains the finest specimen of impassioned See also:

PROSE

prose published in See also:

Spain during the 19th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. Donoso Cortes' See also:

WORKS

works were collected in five volumes at See also:

MADRID

Madrid (1854–1855) under the editorship of Gavino Tejado.

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