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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... forces it from him , and if he will not inwardly receive it , he at least puts it on for a decoration . Our outward and inward structure is full of imperfection ; but there is nothing useless in nature , not even inutility itself ...
... forces it from him , and if he will not inwardly receive it , he at least puts it on for a decoration . Our outward and inward structure is full of imperfection ; but there is nothing useless in nature , not even inutility itself ...
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... force and as to universal opinions , I fixed myself from my childhood in the place where I resolved to stick . There are some sins that are impetuous , prompt , and sudden ; let us set them aside ; but in these other sins so often ...
... force and as to universal opinions , I fixed myself from my childhood in the place where I resolved to stick . There are some sins that are impetuous , prompt , and sudden ; let us set them aside ; but in these other sins so often ...
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... force of all counsel consists in the time ; occasions and things eternally shift and change . I have in my life committed some important errors , not for want of good understanding , but for want of good luck . There are secret , and ...
... force of all counsel consists in the time ; occasions and things eternally shift and change . I have in my life committed some important errors , not for want of good understanding , but for want of good luck . There are secret , and ...
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... force , and most alluring beauties ; I know both the one and the other , and may therefore the better say it . But , me- thinks , our souls , in old age , are subject to more troublesome maladies and imperfections than in youth ; I said ...
... force , and most alluring beauties ; I know both the one and the other , and may therefore the better say it . But , me- thinks , our souls , in old age , are subject to more troublesome maladies and imperfections than in youth ; I said ...
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... force ; upon the lightest subject offered it swells and stretches it to that degree as therein to employ its utmost power ; wherefore , its idleness is to me a very painful labour , and very prejudicial to my health . Most men's minds ...
... force ; upon the lightest subject offered it swells and stretches it to that degree as therein to employ its utmost power ; wherefore , its idleness is to me a very painful labour , and very prejudicial to my health . Most men's minds ...
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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 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.