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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... 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 the ...
... 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 the ...
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... fortune would incline , and then take fit occasion to fall in with the victors . It would be a kind of treason to proceed after this manner in our own domestic affairs , wherein a man must of necessity be of the one side or the other ...
... fortune would incline , and then take fit occasion to fall in with the victors . It would be a kind of treason to proceed after this manner in our own domestic affairs , wherein a man must of necessity be of the one side or the other ...
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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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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.