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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... body : their best effect is the public service ; this I take for presupposed . But should one command me to take charge of the courts of 1 " Crimes are committed by the consent of the magistrates and the common laws . " - Seneca , Ep ...
... body : their best effect is the public service ; this I take for presupposed . But should one command me to take charge of the courts of 1 " Crimes are committed by the consent of the magistrates and the common laws . " - Seneca , Ep ...
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... body , had exercised this trade all the time of his youth in great security ; for he ever made his harvest and vintage in other men's grounds , but a great way off , and in so great quantities , that it was not to be imagined . one man ...
... body , had exercised this trade all the time of his youth in great security ; for he ever made his harvest and vintage in other men's grounds , but a great way off , and in so great quantities , that it was not to be imagined . one man ...
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... body of a libertine ; nor would I have this wretched remainder give the lie to the pleasant , sound , and long part of my life : I would present myself uniformly throughout . Were I to live my life over again , I should live it just as ...
... body of a libertine ; nor would I have this wretched remainder give the lie to the pleasant , sound , and long part of my life : I would present myself uniformly throughout . Were I to live my life over again , I should live it just as ...
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... body does ; we see in both the one sex and the other , they have in the herd choice and particular election in their affections , and that they have amongst themselves a long commerce of good will . Even those to whom old age denies the ...
... body does ; we see in both the one sex and the other , they have in the herd choice and particular election in their affections , and that they have amongst themselves a long commerce of good will . Even those to whom old age denies the ...
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... body , nothing . Beauty is the true prerogative of women , and so peculiarly their own , that ours , though naturally requiring another sort of feature , is never in its lustre but when youthful and beard- less , a sort of confused ...
... body , nothing . Beauty is the true prerogative of women , and so peculiarly their own , that ours , though naturally requiring another sort of feature , is never in its lustre but when youthful and beard- less , a sort of confused ...
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Popular passages
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 161 - ... 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 327 - 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 274 - 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 269 - Etenim ipsae se impellunt, ubi semel a ratione discessum est, ipsaque sibi imbecillitas indulget in altumque provehitur imprudens nee reperit locum consistendi.