 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Knights and knighthood - 1848 - 458 pages
...recommend her ; for public reputation is the life of a lady's virtue, and the outward appearance of modesty is in one sense as good as the reality ; since...prejudicial in this world as a public indecency." CHAPTER LIV. An account of the great adventure of Montesinos? Cave. DON QUIXOTE having tarried three... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1877 - 638 pages
...recommend her ; for public reputation is the life of a lady's virtue, and the outward appearance of modesty is in one sense as good as the reality; since...prejudicial in this world as a public indecency." CHAPTER LX. An account of the great adventure of Montesinos' cave. DON QUIXOTE having tarried three... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Knights and knighthood - 1881 - 470 pages
...recommend her ; for public reputation is the life of a lady's virtue, and the outward appearance of modesty is in one sense as good as the reality ; since...keeping her so, and perhaps you may improve her virtues. Jf you take an unchaste partner to your bed, it is hard mending her; for the extremities of vice and... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1882 - 596 pages
...than fortune, for the good woman acquires good report not only by being good but by seeming to he so; since a private sin is not so prejudicial in this...you bring a woman honest to your bosom, it is easy to. keep her so, and even improve her. If you take an unchaste partner to your bed, it is hard mending... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1906 - 612 pages
...recommend her; for public reputation is the life of a lady's virtue, and the outward appearance of modesty is in one sense as good as the reality; since...mending her ; for the extremities of vice and virtue cousin came, mounted on an ass with foal ; his pack-saddle covered with an old carpet, or coarse packing-cloth.... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1919 - 498 pages
...recommend her ; for public reputation is the life of a lady's virtue, and the outward appearance of modesty is in one sense as good as the reality ; since...partner to your bed, it is hard mending her ; for the extremes of vice and virtue are so great in a woman, and their points so far asunder, that it is very... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1919 - 596 pages
...than fortune, for the good woman acquires good report not only by being good but by seeming to be so; since a private sin is not so prejudicial in this...you bring a woman honest to your bosom, it is easy to keep her so, and even improve her. If you take an unchaste partner to your bed, it is hard mending... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...(1628-1688) British Baptist preacher, author. The Interpreter, in The Pilgrim's Progress, pt. 2 (1684). 4 A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, (1547-1616) Spanish author. Don Quixote, in Don Quixote, pt. 2, ch. 22 (1615),... | |
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... For my own part, I need not make the application to myself, for I am not married, nor have I as yet any thoughts that way ; but if I had, it would not be a woman's fortune, but her character, should recommend her ; for public reputation is the life... 