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... desire in me to be better known , where I am sure to be so much pleased . I have till now thought wit could not be translated , and do still retain so much of that opinion , that I believe it impossible , except by one whose genius ...
... desire in me to be better known , where I am sure to be so much pleased . I have till now thought wit could not be translated , and do still retain so much of that opinion , that I believe it impossible , except by one whose genius ...
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... desire and hope , are still pushing us on towards the future , depriving us in the mean time of the sense and consideration of that , which is to amuse us , with the thought of what shall be , even when we shall be no more . Calamitosus ...
... desire and hope , are still pushing us on towards the future , depriving us in the mean time of the sense and consideration of that , which is to amuse us , with the thought of what shall be , even when we shall be no more . Calamitosus ...
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... desire , if he have left an ill repute behind him , and that his posterity be miserable , can be said to be happy ? Whilst we have life and motion , we convey ourselves by fancy and preoccupation , whither and to what we please ; but ...
... desire , if he have left an ill repute behind him , and that his posterity be miserable , can be said to be happy ? Whilst we have life and motion , we convey ourselves by fancy and preoccupation , whither and to what we please ; but ...
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... desire . But above all , that which gives them the greatest room to play in , is the obscure , ambiguous , and fantastick gibberish of their prophetick canting , where their authors deliver nothing of clear sence , but shroud all in ...
... desire . But above all , that which gives them the greatest room to play in , is the obscure , ambiguous , and fantastick gibberish of their prophetick canting , where their authors deliver nothing of clear sence , but shroud all in ...
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... desire , and anticipated by his fall the name and power to which he aspir'd , by perfecting his career . In the judgment I make of another man's life , I always observe how he carried himself at his death ; and the prin- cipal concern I ...
... desire , and anticipated by his fall the name and power to which he aspir'd , by perfecting his career . In the judgment I make of another man's life , I always observe how he carried himself at his death ; and the prin- cipal concern I ...
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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.