The Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Volume 3G. Bell & Sons, Limited, 1908 |
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... fortune has doubtless the best share in it ) , that few things have passed from hand to hand with less suspicion or more favour and privacy . I have a free and open way that easily insinuates itself and obtains belief with those with ...
... fortune has doubtless the best share in it ) , that few things have passed from hand to hand with less suspicion or more favour and privacy . I have a free and open way that easily insinuates itself and obtains belief with those with ...
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... fortune to save me , and I will make use of all the length of line my duty allows for his preservation . Was it not Atticus , ' who being of the just but losing side , preserved himself by his moderation in that universal shipwreck of ...
... fortune to save me , and I will make use of all the length of line my duty allows for his preservation . Was it not Atticus , ' who being of the just but losing side , preserved himself by his moderation in that universal shipwreck of ...
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... fortune . " - LIVY , xxxii . 21 . 2 Herodotus vii . 163 . 3 An able negotiator , who , though protected by the Guises , and strongly supporting them , was yet very far from persecuting the Reformists . He died 1577 . the ancient ...
... fortune . " - LIVY , xxxii . 21 . 2 Herodotus vii . 163 . 3 An able negotiator , who , though protected by the Guises , and strongly supporting them , was yet very far from persecuting the Reformists . He died 1577 . the ancient ...
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... fortune particularly and expressly depends upon theirs . The laws have delivered me from a great anxiety ; they have chosen a side for me , and given me a master ; all other superiority and obligation ought to be relative to that , and ...
... fortune particularly and expressly depends upon theirs . The laws have delivered me from a great anxiety ; they have chosen a side for me , and given me a master ; all other superiority and obligation ought to be relative to that , and ...
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... fortune , that I was not wholly embarked in it . For there are ways less displeasing to my taste , and more suitable to my ability , by which , if she had formerly called me to the public service , and my own advancement towards the ...
... fortune , that I was not wholly embarked in it . For there are ways less displeasing to my taste , and more suitable to my ability , by which , if she had formerly called me to the public service , and my own advancement towards the ...
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Page 98 - Nam tu sola potes tranquilla pace iuvare mortalis, quoniam belli fera moenera Mavors armipotens regit, in gremium qui saepe tuum se reicit aeterno devictus vulnere amoris, atque ita suspiciens tereti cervice reposta pascit amore avidos inhians in te, dea, visus, eque tuo pendet resupini spiritus ore.
Page 232 - Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. 20 And again. The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
Page 94 - Audio, quid veteres olim moneatis amici: Pone seram, cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes ? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
Page 70 - Tithonia flectere coniunx. aspice qui coeant populi, quae moenia clausis 385 ferrum acuant portis in me excidiumque meorum.' 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 157 - ... love in biting and scratching. It is not vigorous and generous enough if it be not quarrelsome ; if civilized and artificial, if it treads nicely, and fears the shock.
Page 20 - 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 264 - I am betimes sensible of the little breezes that begin to sing and whistle in the shrouds, the fore-runners of the storm : 1 Buchanan.
Page 215 - ... tis ridiculous and unjust that the laziness of our wives should be maintained with our sweat and labour. No man, so far as in me lies, shall have a clearer, a more quiet and free fruition of his estate than I. If the husband bring matter, nature herself will that the wife find the form. As to the duties of conjugal friendship, that some think to be impaired by these absences, I am quite of another opinion. It is, on the contrary, an intelligence that easily cools by a too frequent and assiduous...
Page 74 - might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me: but 'tis to much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have it so. Most of my actions are guided by example, not choice.
Page 138 - ... tis short both in extent of time and extent of matter: Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi, sed omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte.