Montaigne's Essays: John Florio's Translation ; Edited by J. I. M. Stewart, Volume 2Nonesuch Press, 1928 - Ethics |
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... follow the best side to the fire , but not into it , if I can choose . If neede require , let Montaigne my Mannor - house be swallowed up in the publike ruine : but if there be no such necessity , I will acknowledge my selfe beholding ...
... follow the best side to the fire , but not into it , if I can choose . If neede require , let Montaigne my Mannor - house be swallowed up in the publike ruine : but if there be no such necessity , I will acknowledge my selfe beholding ...
Page 14
... follow the common phrase , which makes a difference betweene profitable and honest things : terming some naturall actions which are not onely profitable but necessary , dishonest and filthy . But to continue our examples of treason ...
... follow the common phrase , which makes a difference betweene profitable and honest things : terming some naturall actions which are not onely profitable but necessary , dishonest and filthy . But to continue our examples of treason ...
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... follow uncessantly , and bee so addicted to his inclinations , as hee cannot stray from them , nor wrest them . This I say now , as being extreamly pestred with the importunity of my minde , forsomuch as shee cannot ammuse her selfe ...
... follow uncessantly , and bee so addicted to his inclinations , as hee cannot stray from them , nor wrest them . This I say now , as being extreamly pestred with the importunity of my minde , forsomuch as shee cannot ammuse her selfe ...
Page 39
... follow my purpose , this harsh complexion of mine makes me nice in conversing with men ( whom I must picke and cull out for the nonce ) and unfit for common actions . Wee live and negotiate with the people : If their behaviour importune ...
... follow my purpose , this harsh complexion of mine makes me nice in conversing with men ( whom I must picke and cull out for the nonce ) and unfit for common actions . Wee live and negotiate with the people : If their behaviour importune ...
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... follow also the example wee give them ; acting their part of the play , without passion ; without care , and without love lending themselves to this entercourse : Neque affectui suo aut alieno obnoxia : Neither liable to their own nor ...
... follow also the example wee give them ; acting their part of the play , without passion ; without care , and without love lending themselves to this entercourse : Neque affectui suo aut alieno obnoxia : Neither liable to their own nor ...
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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.