 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...  Essays - Page 303by Michel de Montaigne - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Plutarch - Ethics - 1870 - 560 pages
...government of my affairs." 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."... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1874 - 558 pages
...government of my affairs." 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."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pages
...government of my affairs." 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."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1883 - 484 pages
...government of my affairs." 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."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 400 pages
...government of my affairs." 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. 'T is our breviary."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 478 pages
...government of my affairs." 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. 'T is our breviary."... | |
 | Plutarch - 1889 - 562 pages
...government of my affairs." 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."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 650 pages
...government of my affairs." 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."... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1908 - 540 pages
...knew the true fancy of the author, or having, by being long conversant with him, imprinted a vivid and general idea of that of Plutarch in his soul,...or contradicts him), but above all, I am the most 1 Nat. Hist., iv. 12. 2 See Cicero, Tusc. Qua?s., ii. 27; and Rousseau's Nouvelle IlijloVse, liv. ii.... | |
 | Anne Elizabeth Burlingame - Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of - 1920 - 246 pages
...works into vernacular, and especially commends Jacques Amyot for rendering Plutarch into French. " We dunces had been lost, had not this book raised us out of the dirt." He regrets that the same author did not also translate Xenophon. Montaigne, however, makes the Bible... | |
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