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...words Thomas Carlyle said most of what is actually known about the man who wrote Don Quixote: "A certain strong man fought stoutly at Lepanto, worked stoutly as an Algerine slave; with stout cheerfulness endured famine and nakedness and the world's ingratitude; and sitting in gaol, with one hand left him, wrote our joyfullest, and all but our deepest, modern book, and named it Don Quixote." Not a letter or a manuscript of Cervantes has survived, nothing but a few legal documents, "residuum of his continual poverty...
...young man with no future, he jumped at the chance of getting out of Spain, going to Rome as Spanish teacher to a Papal legate. There, for something else to do, he became a soldier and went off to fight the Turks. In the bloody sea-battle of Lepanto a bullet shattered his left hand, made him a hero...
...lounged about Rome and Naples in a brilliant uniform with little money in his purse. Though some of his biographers say he was a born soldier, Author Tomas disagrees, thinks Cervantes loathed the life but preferred it to starvation. He acquitted himself creditably in the great sea-battle of Lepanto, in which Don John of Austria destroyed the Turkish fleet, and won a slight raise in pay and a permanently maimed left hand. On his way back to Spain his ship was captured by Algerian corsairs. In Algiers, Cervantes spent five years in prison, made four unsuccessful attempts to escape...
Should the people that discovered America and saved the world for Christianity (Lepanto), be spoken of with such detraction ? What purpose motivates...
...battle of Lepanto but one of pants has been unhappily revived by an esteemed contemporary, the Harvard CRIMSON. We had thought this subject out of the way and disposed of, instead of which it more than smoulders. Let us recite the facts in orderly fashion certain Princetonians waited on President Coolidge, who with the eye of good-natured criticism remarked on the dimensions of their trousers, how they seemed to hover towards baggy descent, and upon the supposed absence of braces for the said two-legged petticoats. The words were taken as they were uttered, and the young Princetonians received...