 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...  Essays - Page 139by Michel de Montaigne - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Michel de Montaigne - French essays - 1743 - 440 pages
...underftand my own Language, and that of my Neighbours with whom moft of my Buunefs and Converfation lyes. No doubt but Greek and Latin are very great Ornaments, and of very great Ufe, but we buy them too dear : I will hejsdifcover one Way, which alfo has been experimented in Hiy... | |
 | Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...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....conversation lies. No doubt but Greek and Latin are veiy great ornaments, and of very great use, but we buy them too dear. Some men of the greatest learning... | |
 | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - 1842 - 792 pages
...commendable quality ; but 'tis 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....but Greek and Latin are very great ornaments and of great use, but we buy them too dear. I T"« mndt in will here mention one way which Jáis« f'anici... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt - 1845 - 786 pages
...commendable quality ; but 'tis 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....conversation lies. No doubt but Greek and Latin are rery great ornaments and of great use, but we buy them too dear. I T1>? mo<1t' '» will here mention... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1849 - 698 pages
...commendable quality ; but 'tis 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 m_ own language and that of my neighbours, with whom most of my business and conversation lies. No... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1866 - 504 pages
...commendable quality ; but 'tis 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....with whom most of my business and conversation lies. a No doubt but Greek, and Latin are very great ornaments 1 Lnertlus, life ofQmcwu, x. sec. 13. 3 Stobosus,... | |
 | Robert Hebert Quick - Education - 1868 - 360 pages
...commendable quality, but not so excellent or so necessary as some would make it ; and I am scandalised that our whole life should be spent in nothing else....would first understand my own language, and that of my neighbour, with whom most of my business and conversation lies. No doubt Greek and Latin are very great... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...might be learned otherwise easily and delightfully in one year. MILTON: Tractate on Education, 1644. I would first understand my own language, and that...ornaments, and of very great use, but we buy them too dear. . . . My father having made the most precise enquiry that any man could possibly make amongst men of... | |
 | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - 1877 - 560 pages
...commendable quality ; but not so excellent and so necessary as some would make it ; and I am scandalised that our whole life should be spent in nothing else....them too dear. I will here discover one way, which has been experimented in my own person, by which they are to be had better cheap, and such may make... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - Bookbinding - 1877 - 514 pages
...some would make it ; and I am scandalise^ that our whole life should be spent in nothing else. HTwould first understand my own language, and that of my neighbours...them too dear. I will here discover one way, which has been experimented in my own person, by which they are to be had better cheap, and such may make... | |
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