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... danger of this example , and lose a few bodies of his dead friends that were floating in the sea , gave opportunity to a world of living enemies to sail away in safety , who afterwards made them pay dear for this unseasonable ...
... danger of this example , and lose a few bodies of his dead friends that were floating in the sea , gave opportunity to a world of living enemies to sail away in safety , who afterwards made them pay dear for this unseasonable ...
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... danger of the shot within the very walls of the town . Eumenes , being shut up in the city of Nora by Antigonus , and by him importun'd to come out to speak with him , as he sent him word it was fit he should to a better man than ...
... danger of the shot within the very walls of the town . Eumenes , being shut up in the city of Nora by Antigonus , and by him importun'd to come out to speak with him , as he sent him word it was fit he should to a better man than ...
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Michel de Montaigne. 34 HISTORICAL PROOFS OF DANGER IN PARLEYING . gure , having so sapp'd the greatest part of the ... DANGEROUS . I SAW notwithstanding lately at Mussidam , a place not far from my house , that those who were driven out ...
Michel de Montaigne. 34 HISTORICAL PROOFS OF DANGER IN PARLEYING . gure , having so sapp'd the greatest part of the ... DANGEROUS . I SAW notwithstanding lately at Mussidam , a place not far from my house , that those who were driven out ...
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... danger of tripping ; and yet even this also , by reason it is a vain body , and without any other foundation than fancy only , is very apt to escape the memory ,, if they be not careful to make themselves very perfect in their tale . Of ...
... danger of tripping ; and yet even this also , by reason it is a vain body , and without any other foundation than fancy only , is very apt to escape the memory ,, if they be not careful to make themselves very perfect in their tale . Of ...
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... danger , by an impudent and solemn lye . An ancient father says , " that a dog we know is better company than a man ... dangerous example , ( for the King had apply'd himself to all the princes of Christendom , as well as to the Duke ...
... danger , by an impudent and solemn lye . An ancient father says , " that a dog we know is better company than a man ... dangerous example , ( for the King had apply'd himself to all the princes of Christendom , as well as to the Duke ...
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Page 414 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Page 276 - Immunis aram si tetigit manus, Non sumptuosa blandior hostia Mollivit aversos Penates Farre pio et saliente mica.
Page 139 - Not that fine speaking is not a very good and commendable quality; but not so excellent and so necessary as some would make it; and I am scandalized that our whole life should be spent in nothing else. I would first understand my own language, and that of my neighbours with whom most of my business and conversation lies.
Page 108 - All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and goodness.
Page 41 - We are not men, nor have other tie upon one another, but by our word. If we did but discover the horror and gravity of it, we should pursue it with fire and sword, and more justly than other crimes.
Page 662 - I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare: and I dare a little the more, as I grow older; for methinks custom allows to age more liberty of prating, and more indiscretion of talking of a man's self.
Page 303 - Still earlier, Rabelais cites him with due respect. Montaigne, in 1589, says: " We dunces had been lost, had not this book raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare now speak and write. The ladies are able to read to schoolmasters. 'Tis our breviary.
Page 83 - ... pound them to a pulp, which they mix with their wine, and drink it; where the...
Page 267 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Page 64 - Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum : Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.