Commander Mendoza (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Commander Mendoza (Classic Reprint) written by Juan Valera and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Commander Mendoza Don Fadrique Lopez de Mendoza, commonly called the Commander, was the brother of Don Jose, the eldest son and heir of the house of Mendoza. Don Fadrique was born in 1774. From his childhood up he had manifested, it is said, a perverse inclination to turn everything into ridicule and to take nothing seriously. This is of all qualities the one least easily pardoned when it is suspected to proceed, not from frivolity of disposition, but, on the contrary, from a seriousness of character which leads a man to regard things earthly and human as scarcely worthy of his serious consideration; whence, from very seriousness, spring contempt and ridicule. Don Fadrique, according to general tradition, was a man of this kind - jocose from very seriousness. It is plain that there are two classes of men who are jocose from very seriousness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."