Wit and wisdom of Don Quixote (1882) (14594604330)

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Title: Wit and wisdom of Don Quixote ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616 Thompson, Emma, (from old catalog) tr. and comp
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Publisher: Boston, Roberts brothers



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g but death, 210. Retreat sometimes wise, 61. Riches, two roads to, 120. Riches, of little avail against trouble, 62. Rome, when in, 264. Rules for obtaining excellence, 62. Seeing is believing, 128.Severity is not disdain, 50. XVI u IK VEX TO PROVERBS. Sleep, a cure for trouble, 230.Soldier, a covetous, a monster, 82.Soldier, equal to a captain, 34.Song, the relief of, 61.Sorrow, concealed, 73.Sorrow, a blessing, 128. Tiling, a, begun is half finished, 202.Thing, a, the right handle of, 56.To-day here, to-morrow gone, 121.Tongues as weapons, 177.Tricks of a town, 86.Truffles, to look for, in the sea, 106.Truth, the mother of history, 29.Truth may bend, 124. Virtue more persecuted than beloved, 86. Walls have ears, 244. Wealth, its gratification is a right application, 119. Wise, a word to the, 202. Wit and humor, attributes of genius, 108. Woman, varieties of, 70. Woman, the burden to which she is born, 118. Woman, her advice, to be taken, 120. Yes or no of a woman, between the, 162.
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DON QUIXOTE. CERVANTES. A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. The most trivial act of the daily life of some menhas a unique interest, independent of idle curiosity,which dissatisfies us with the meagre food of date,place, and pedigree. So in the Cartas de Indias was published, two years ago, in Spain, a facsimile,letter from Cervantes when tax-gatherer to Philip II.,informing-him of the efforts he had made to collect thetaxes in certain Andalusian villages. It is difficult, from the slight social record that wehave of Cervantes, to draw the line where imaginationbegins and facts end. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, the contemporary ofShakspeare, Galileo, Camoens, Rubens, Tasso, andLope de Vega, was born obscurely and in poverty, butwith good antecedents. His grandfather, Juan de Cer-vantes, was the corregidor, or mayor, of Ossuna, andour poet was the youngest son of Rodrigo and Leonorade Cortifios, of the Barajas family. On either side hebelonged to illustrious houses. He speaks of his birth- xxii CE