The Life and Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha: New Edition, with Engravings from Designs by Richard Westall, Том 1

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Hurst, Robinson, and Company, 1820

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Страница 82 - ... for historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of the past, example to the present, and monitor to the future.
Страница 289 - I neither say, nor think so," answered Sancho; " let those who say it, eat the lie, and swallow it with their bread : whether they were guilty or no, they have given an account to God before now : I come from my vineyard, I know nothing ; I am no friend to inquiring into other men's lives ; for he that buys and lies shall find the lie left in his purse behind ; besides, naked was I born, and naked I remain ; I neither win nor lose ; if they were guilty, what is that to me ? Many think to find bacon,...
Страница 52 - Verily, neighbour, in its way, it is the best book in the world : here the knights eat and sleep, and die in their beds, and make their wills before their deaths ; with several things, which are wanting in all other books of this kind.
Страница 47 - ' for I have heard also that it is the best of all the books of this kind; therefore, as being unequalled in its way, it ought to be spared.
Страница 87 - But tell me, on your life, have you ever seen a more valorous Knight than I, upon the whole face of the known earth ? Have you read in story of any other, who has, or ever had, more bravery in assailing, more breath in. holding out, more dexterity in wounding, or more address in giving a...
Страница xvii - If you are speaking of evil thoughts, bring in the gospel again: De corde exeunt cogitationes malae* On the instability of friends, Cato will lend you his distich: Donee eris felix, multos numerabis amicos, Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris...
Страница 74 - Biscainer by land, gentleman by sea, gentleman for the devil, and thou liest: look then if thou hast any thing else to say.

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