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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... liberty and freedom of a man who treats without any interest of his own , is never hateful or suspected , and he may very well make use of the answer of Hyperides to the Athenians , who complained of his blunt way of speaking : " My ...
... liberty and freedom of a man who treats without any interest of his own , is never hateful or suspected , and he may very well make use of the answer of Hyperides to the Athenians , who complained of his blunt way of speaking : " My ...
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... and maintain an appearance of liberty and licence , so equal and inflexible , through so many various and crooked paths , and that all their wit and endeavour could never have led them through Chap . 1. ] 9 Of Profit and Honesty .
... and maintain an appearance of liberty and licence , so equal and inflexible , through so many various and crooked paths , and that all their wit and endeavour could never have led them through Chap . 1. ] 9 Of Profit and Honesty .
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... liberty by money , by the order and consent of the senate , out of the hands of L. Sylla : the business coming again in ques- tion , the senate condemned them to be taxable as they were before , and that the money they had disbursed for ...
... liberty by money , by the order and consent of the senate , out of the hands of L. Sylla : the business coming again in ques- tion , the senate condemned them to be taxable as they were before , and that the money they had disbursed for ...
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... liberty of his country , made conscience of killing a tyrant or his accom- plices , without due form of justice : and who concluded . him to be a wicked man , how good citizen soever other- wise , who amongst his enemies in battle ...
... liberty of his country , made conscience of killing a tyrant or his accom- plices , without due form of justice : and who concluded . him to be a wicked man , how good citizen soever other- wise , who amongst his enemies in battle ...
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... liberty of prating , and more indiscretion of talking of a man's self . That cannot fall out here , which I often see elsewhere , that the work and the artificer contradict one another : " can a man of such sober conversation have ...
... liberty of prating , and more indiscretion of talking of a man's self . That cannot fall out here , which I often see elsewhere , that the work and the artificer contradict one another : " can a man of such sober conversation have ...
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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.