Excerpt from The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha, Vol. 1: Translated From the Original Spanish
There are three circumftancm, wherein cies of this author appear in the {trongeit light. The firft is, that the genius of knight-errantry having been fo long e i1td all over Europe, excepting in Spain, yet this boo has been tranflated into moft languages, and every where read with univerfal applaufe; thou gh the humour was long ago fpent, and the fatire afi'eé'ted none but the Spaniards. Secondly, that, although it requires a good Judgment to difcover all the nicer beam, ties in this writer, yet there remain enough fnificiently oh Vions to pleafe people of all capacities whatfoever. The third (which I confine wholly t9 Englazd) is, that.
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