Essays, tr. by C. Cotton, with some account of the life of Montaigne, notes and a tr. of all the letters, ed. by W.C. Hazlitt, Volume 3 |
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... action plays its own game , win if it can . As to the rest , I am not swayed by any passion , either of love or hatred , towards the great , nor has my will capti- vated either by particular injury or obligation . I look upon our kings ...
... action plays its own game , win if it can . As to the rest , I am not swayed by any passion , either of love or hatred , towards the great , nor has my will capti- vated either by particular injury or obligation . I look upon our kings ...
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... actions must receive commission from the public appointment . All this proceeding of mine is a little dissonant from the ordinary forms ; it would produce no great effects , nor be of any long duration ; innocence itself could not , in ...
... actions must receive commission from the public appointment . All this proceeding of mine is a little dissonant from the ordinary forms ; it would produce no great effects , nor be of any long duration ; innocence itself could not , in ...
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... actions , either good or excusable , that are not lawful in themselves . The justice which in itself is natural and universal , is otherwise and more nobly ordered , than that other justice , which is special , national , and ...
... actions , either good or excusable , that are not lawful in themselves . The justice which in itself is natural and universal , is otherwise and more nobly ordered , than that other justice , which is special , national , and ...
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... actions , that are not only profitable but necessary , dishonest , and foul . But let us proceed in our examples of treachery two pretenders to the kingdom of Thrace2 were fallen into dis- pute about their title ; the emperor hindered ...
... actions , that are not only profitable but necessary , dishonest , and foul . But let us proceed in our examples of treachery two pretenders to the kingdom of Thrace2 were fallen into dis- pute about their title ; the emperor hindered ...
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... action , to foist , in all security , into it some show of virtue and justice , as by way of compensation and conscientious correction ; to which may be added , that they look upon the ministers of such horrid crimes as upon men who ...
... action , to foist , in all security , into it some show of virtue and justice , as by way of compensation and conscientious correction ; to which may be added , that they look upon the ministers of such horrid crimes as upon men who ...
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Page 35 - ... huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres quodcumque ageret...
Page 136 - Dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, Dum superest Lachesi, quod torqueat, et pedibus me Porto meis, nullo dextram subeunte bacillo.
Page 153 - Baltheus en gemmis, en illita portions auro : "* all the sides of this vast space filled and environed, from. the bottom to the top, with three or fourscore rows of seats, all of marble also, and covered with cushions, " Exeat, inquit, Si pudor est, et de pulvino surgat equestri, Cujus res legi non sufficit.
Page 104 - Audio, quid veteres olim moneatis amici: Pone seram, cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes ? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
Page 159 - ... love in biting and scratching : it is not vigorous and generous enough, if it be not quarrelsome, if...
Page 18 - 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 325 - Quis deus hanc mundi temperet arte domum, Qua venit exoriens, qua deficit, unde coactis Cornibus in plenum menstrua luna redit, Unde salo superant venti, quid flamine captet Eurus, et in nubes unde perennis aqua, 30 Sit ventura dies, mundi quae subruat arces...
Page 272 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 277 - But there is a sort of ignorance, strong and generous, that yields nothing in honour and courage to knowledge ; an ignorance which to conceive requires no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge itself.
Page 267 - Etenim ipsae se impellunt, ubi semel a ratione discessum est, ipsaque sibi imbecillitas indulget in altumque provehitur imprudens nee reperit locum consistendi.