Show LOSING GAME which ira areas flow orp grasp Is abr ten years macaulay w thil this of the power of spain year years ago the empire of philip 11 was edly one ono of the most powerful and splendid th tint thit it ever existed in tit the world it ie is no caage atlon to ay say that daring during several year years hie his power ovir over europe was greater than even that of napoleon la in america hi his dominion dominions extended on both ride sides of the equator into the tern tem tom thero then Is I 1 creasm to believe belleto tha abit his revenues amounted I 1 iu be season of hie his greatest power toa to j u niu IB ten times tina as largo an im that which augland id yielded to elizabrth he ile had hall a standing tandi ag army of troupe when Englan duld dot bare have a single battalion in pay lie ile held what no actis er prince ia in modern times ha has held the dominion both of the land and tho wea oaring during the greater port part of hie his reign be he was sup e 9 oo 00 both elements ele menta him ill eol sol dier then marched op up to the capital of france his hi ships menaced to an hom or of fingland Ln Lin gland SAW bad had what napoleon de tie aired ia ill 1 hape colonies and commerce bho she long monopolized the trade of america and of the indian ocean all the gold old of the west and all the spiced of the east were received and distri distribute but ed od by h her hven after tho the detent defeat of the annada armada english Engli fib state statesmen amen continued to lock look with great dread on the marii nind I 1 time pot er of philip a a whoever wishes to he be well acquainted with the tb morbid anatomy of t governments who evit ever wilbes to know how kroat great states may nay t be too mado made feeble and wretched should otray the history of spainey Spa inEx I 1 change |