The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha, المجلد 2

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الصفحة 470 - OF HIRCANIA, in folio, which he read quite through. Yet I have heard him attribute to these extravagant fictions that unsettled turn of mind which prevented his ever fixing in any profession.
الصفحة 211 - ... kingdoms supported, cities secured, the highway made safe, and the sea delivered from pirates. In short, were it not for them, commonwealths, kingdoms, monarchies, cities, the roads by land, and the waters of the sea, would be subject to the ravages and confusion that attend war while it lasts and is' at liberty to make use of its unbounded power and prerogative. Besides, it is past all controversy, that what costs dearest is and ought to be most valued. Now, for a man to attain to an eminent...
الصفحة 213 - ... which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman, and that in the midst of that vigour and resolution which animates and inflames the bold, a chance bullet -(shot perhaps by one that fled, and was...
الصفحة 469 - It makes him to kis his hand like an ape, cringe his necke like a starveling, and play at hey passe repasse come aloft when he salutes a man. From thence he brings the art of atheisme, the art of epicurising, the art of whoring, the art of poysoning, the art of Sodomitrie.
الصفحة 468 - French hat, kept a terrible coil with the dust in the street in their long cloaks of gray paper, and spoken English strangely. Nought else have they profited by their travel, but to distinguish the true Bordeaux grape, and know a cup of neat Gascoigne wine from wine of Orleans ; yea and peradventure this also, to esteem of the p — x as a pimple, to wear a velvet patch on their face, and walk melancholy with their arms folded.
الصفحة 403 - And the first thing I would do in my government, I would have nobody to control me, I would be absolute; and who but I : now, he that is absolute, can do what he likes ; he that can do what he likes, can take his pleasure ; he that can take his pleasure, can be content ; and he that can be content, has no more to desire ; so the matter's over...
الصفحة 479 - It was a Spanish knight, who had long been in Algiers, From ladies high descended, and noble cavaliers ; But forced, for a season, a false Moor's slave to be — Upon the shore his gardener, his galley-slave at sea.
الصفحة 478 - Row, row, my slaves," quoth Dragut, " the knights, the knights are near, How, row, my slaves, row swiftly, the star-light is too clear, The stars they are too bright, and he that means us well, He harms us when he trims his light — yon Moorish sentinel.
الصفحة 481 - ... mistress: he therefore placed himself as commodiously as he could in this uncouth equipage, and only lamented that after much jolting he made little progress. In the mean time, the road which Gawain followed had insensibly led him into that of Lancelot. He met the dwarf; to -whom, without noticing his friend, he put the same questions, and received the same answer : but being on horseback, he of course declined the proposition ; and, having then recognised the other knight, strongly but ineffectually...
الصفحة 469 - Italy, the paradise of the earth, and the epicure's heaven, how doth it form our young master ? It makes him to kiss his hand like an ape, cringe his neck like a starveling, and play at Hey-pass-repasscome-aloft, when he salutes a man : from thence he brings the art of atheism, the art of epicurizing, the art of whoring...

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