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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... judges , by fraud and false hopes of favour or pardon , allure a criminal to confess his fact , and therein to make use of cozenage and impudence . It would become justice , and Plato himself , who countenances this manner of proceeding ...
... judges , by fraud and false hopes of favour or pardon , allure a criminal to confess his fact , and therein to make use of cozenage and impudence . It would become justice , and Plato himself , who countenances this manner of proceeding ...
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... judges solemnly swear , that they would not do anything contrary to their consciences , though never so much commanded to it by themselves . In such commissions , there is evident mark of ignominy and con- demnation ; and he who gives ...
... judges solemnly swear , that they would not do anything contrary to their consciences , though never so much commanded to it by themselves . In such commissions , there is evident mark of ignominy and con- demnation ; and he who gives ...
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... judge of it without knowing him , will more wrong himself than me ; he who does know him , gives me all the satisfaction I desire . I shall be happy beyond my desert , if I can obtain only thus much from the public approbation , as to ...
... judge of it without knowing him , will more wrong himself than me ; he who does know him , gives me all the satisfaction I desire . I shall be happy beyond my desert , if I can obtain only thus much from the public approbation , as to ...
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... judge of myself , and apply myself more to these than to any other rules : I do , indeed , restrain my actions according to others ; but extend them not by any other rule than my own . You yourself only know if you are cowardly and ...
... judge of myself , and apply myself more to these than to any other rules : I do , indeed , restrain my actions according to others ; but extend them not by any other rule than my own . You yourself only know if you are cowardly and ...
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... judge and try us within , make no great account of the lustre of our public 1 Moral . ad Nicom . , x . 7 . * Montaigne added here , “ To do for the world that for which he came into the world , " but he afterwards erased these words ...
... judge and try us within , make no great account of the lustre of our public 1 Moral . ad Nicom . , x . 7 . * Montaigne added here , “ To do for the world that for which he came into the world , " but he afterwards erased these words ...
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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.