A Grammar of the Spanish Language for the Use of the Students in King's College

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ... devoto corazon y casi lagrimas le beso los pies una y muchas veces. Visto lo cual por el hidalgo, lepregunto, Que haceis, hermano? Que besos son estos? Dejenme besar, respondio Sancho, porque me parece vuesa merced el primer santo a la gineta que he visto en todos los dias de mi vida.--D. Quixote, II. 16. Examples. Sancho was very attentive to the relation of the gentleman's life and amusements, all which appeared to him to be good and holy; and thinking that one of such a character must needs work miracles, he flung himself off his Dapple, and running hastily, laid hold of his stirrup, and with a devout heart and almost weeping eyes he kissed his feet more than once; which the gentleman perceiving, said, What mean you, brother? What kisses are these?--Pray let me kiss on, answered Sancho, for your Worship is the first saint on horseback I ever saw in all the days of my life. Exercises. 1. I was once present at the lectures of a profound philosopher, who, having occasion to explain the terms opacum and pellucidum, told us, after some hesitation, that opacum was, as one might say, opake, and that pellucidum signified pellucid: such was the dexterity with which this learned reader facilitated to his auditors the intricacies of science. Once, una vez; to explain, esplicar; term, voz; to tell, decir; as one might say, como si se dijese; dexterity, maha; learned, doclo; auditor, oyente; intricacy, dificultad. 2. La Roche's religion was that of sentiment, not theory, and his guest was adverse to disputation; their discourse, therefore, did not lead to questions concerning the belief of either. Of all men I ever knew, his ordinary conversation was the least tinctured with pedantry, or liable to dissertation. Guest, ...