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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... concern me ; mine slip from me with as little care as they are of little value , and ' tis the better for them . I would presently part with them for what they are worth , and neither buy nor sell them , but as they weigh . I speak on ...
... concern me ; mine slip from me with as little care as they are of little value , and ' tis the better for them . I would presently part with them for what they are worth , and neither buy nor sell them , but as they weigh . I speak on ...
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... concerns his state , compelled to forfeit his word and break his faith , or otherwise forced from his ordinary duty , ought to attri- bute this necessity to a lash of the divine rod : vice it is not , for he has given up his own reason ...
... concerns his state , compelled to forfeit his word and break his faith , or otherwise forced from his ordinary duty , ought to attri- bute this necessity to a lash of the divine rod : vice it is not , for he has given up his own reason ...
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... concern . Timoleon made a timely expiation for his strange exploit by the tears he shed , calling to mind that it ... concerned . But Timoleon's comportment in this expedition soon made his cause more clear , so worthily and virtuously ...
... concern . Timoleon made a timely expiation for his strange exploit by the tears he shed , calling to mind that it ... concerned . But Timoleon's comportment in this expedition soon made his cause more clear , so worthily and virtuously ...
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... concern , either public or private , that has been mended or bettered by my advice . Even they whom fortune had in some sort tied to my direction , have more willingly suffered themselves to be governed by any other counsels than mine ...
... concern , either public or private , that has been mended or bettered by my advice . Even they whom fortune had in some sort tied to my direction , have more willingly suffered themselves to be governed by any other counsels than mine ...
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... concerns of my family . ' Tis situated at the entrance into my house , and I thence see under me my garden , court , and base - court , and almost all parts of the building . There I turn over now one book , and then another , on ...
... concerns of my family . ' Tis situated at the entrance into my house , and I thence see under me my garden , court , and base - court , and almost all parts of the building . There I turn over now one book , and then another , on ...
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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.