tailieunhanh - The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes

Among the many wrongs done the Filipinos by Spaniards, to be charged against their undeniably large debt to Spain, one of the greatest, if not the most frequently mentioned, was taking from them their good name. Spanish writers have never been noted for modesty or historical accuracy. Back in 1589 the printer of the English translation of Padre Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza's "History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China" felt it necessary to prefix this warning: * * * the Spaniards (following their ambitious affections) do usually in all their writings extoll their own actions, even to the setting forth of many untruthes. | The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes 1 The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Fedor Jagor Tomas de Comyn Chas. Wilkes Rudolf Virchow. 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 Title The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes Author Fedor Jagor Tomas de Comyn Chas. Wilkes Rudolf Virchow. Release Date June 18 2004 EBook 10770 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FORMER PHILIPPINES Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Distributed Proofreaders Team THE FORMER PHILIPPINES THRU FOREIGN EYES Edited by Austin Craig Preface Among the many wrongs done the Filipinos by Spaniards to be charged against their undeniably large debt to Spain one of the greatest if not the most frequently mentioned was taking from them their good name. Spanish writers have never been noted for modesty or historical accuracy. Back in 1589 the printer of the English translation of Padre Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza s History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China felt it necessary to prefix this warning the Spaniards following their ambitious affections do usually in all their writings extoll their own actions even to the setting forth of many untruthes and incredible things as in their descriptions of the conquistes of the east and west Indies etc. doth more at large appeare. Of early Spanish historians Doctor Antonio de Morga seems the single exception and perhaps even some of his credit comes by contrast but in later years the rule apparently has proved invariable. As the conditions in the successive periods of Spanish influence were recognized to be indicative of little progress if not actually retrogressive the practice grew up of correspondingly lowering the .