Montaigne's Essays: John Florio's Translation ; Edited by J. I. M. Stewart, Volume 2Nonesuch Press, 1928 - Ethics |
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Page 56
... evill is honourable ; death is : therefore is death no evill . Against drunkennesse ; No man entrusts his secrets to a drunkard ; every one to the wise : therefore the wise will not be drunke . Is this to hit the white ? I love to see ...
... evill is honourable ; death is : therefore is death no evill . Against drunkennesse ; No man entrusts his secrets to a drunkard ; every one to the wise : therefore the wise will not be drunke . Is this to hit the white ? I love to see ...
Page 97
... evill , but with laying it on another , so when they lose it , they transferre and bestow this maladie on their husbands . And to say truth , I wot not whether a man can endure any thing at their * D III 442 hands worse then jealousie ...
... evill , but with laying it on another , so when they lose it , they transferre and bestow this maladie on their husbands . And to say truth , I wot not whether a man can endure any thing at their * D III 442 hands worse then jealousie ...
Page 98
... evill , that is never cleane rid away , but by removing the whole peece : and hath no other composi- tion of worth , but flight or sufferance ; both too - too hard , God knowes . And in my conceit , he understood it right , that said ...
... evill , that is never cleane rid away , but by removing the whole peece : and hath no other composi- tion of worth , but flight or sufferance ; both too - too hard , God knowes . And in my conceit , he understood it right , that said ...
Page 130
... evill . To consider and judge danger , is in some sort , not to bee danted at it . I doe not finde my selfe sufficiently strong to withstand the blow and violence of this passion of feare , or of any other impetuosity , were I once ...
... evill . To consider and judge danger , is in some sort , not to bee danted at it . I doe not finde my selfe sufficiently strong to withstand the blow and violence of this passion of feare , or of any other impetuosity , were I once ...
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... evill is common : to doe nothing profitable , is in a manner com- mendable . One thing comforts me , that I shall be of the last , that shall be attached : whilst they shall provide for the worser sort and the most hurtfull , I shall ...
... evill is common : to doe nothing profitable , is in a manner com- mendable . One thing comforts me , that I shall be of the last , that shall be attached : whilst they shall provide for the worser sort and the most hurtfull , I shall ...
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Page 402 - The largest slice of this huge provision is, as a matter of course, given to the tyrannous demands of fiction. But in carrying out the scheme, publishers and editors contrived to keep in mind that books, like men and women, have their elective affinities. The present volume, for instance, will be found to have its companion books, both in the same section and just as significantly in other sections.
Page 403 - Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again!
Page 402 - The Spectator and learn how Cleomira dances, when the elegance of her motion is unimaginable and ' her eyes are chastised with the simplicity and innocence of her thoughts.
Page 402 - ... significantly in other sections. With that idea too, novels like Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and Fortunes of Nigel, Lytton's Harold and Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, have been used as pioneers of history and treated as a sort of holiday history books. For in our day history is tending to grow more documentary and less literary; and "the historian who is a stylist," as one of our contributors, the late Thomas Seccombe, said, "will soon be regarded as a kind of Phoenix.
Page 70 - ... dixerat et niveis hinc atque hinc diva lacertis cunctantem amplexu molli fovet. ille repente accepit solitam flammam, notusque medullas intravit calor et labefacta per ossa cucurrit, 390 non secus atque olim tonitru cum rupta corusco ignea rima micans percurrit lumine nimbos.
Page 38 - ... huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres quodcumque ageret...
Page 119 - In amore haec omnia insunt vitia : injuriae, ôO.suspiciones, inimicitiae, indutiae, bellum, pax rursum : incerta haec si tu postules ratione certa facere, nihilo plus agas quam si des operam ut cum ratione insanias.
Page 173 - In quibus videndum est non modo quid quisque loquatur, sed etiam quid quisque sentiat atque etiam qua de causa quisque sentiat.