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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... lives , for the good of their country : we , who are weaker , take upon us parts both that are more easy and less hazardous . The public weal requires that men should betray , and lie , and massacre ; let us leave this commission to men ...
... lives , for the good of their country : we , who are weaker , take upon us parts both that are more easy and less hazardous . The public weal requires that men should betray , and lie , and massacre ; let us leave this commission to men ...
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... . And where I have seen , at the taking of some little fort by assault in my time , some rascals who , to save their own 1 Tacitus , Annal . , V. 9 . 1 lives , would consent to hang their friends and Chap . 1. ] 15 Of Profit and Honesty .
... . And where I have seen , at the taking of some little fort by assault in my time , some rascals who , to save their own 1 Tacitus , Annal . , V. 9 . 1 lives , would consent to hang their friends and Chap . 1. ] 15 Of Profit and Honesty .
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne William Carew Hazlitt. 1 lives , would consent to hang their friends and companions , I have looked upon them to be of worse condition than those who were hanged . ' Tis said that Witold , Prince of Lithuania ...
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne William Carew Hazlitt. 1 lives , would consent to hang their friends and companions , I have looked upon them to be of worse condition than those who were hanged . ' Tis said that Witold , Prince of Lithuania ...
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... live : we need not harden our courage with these arms of steel ; ' tis enough that our shoulders are inured to them : ' tis enough to dip our pens in ink , without dipping them in blood . If it be grandeur of courage , and the effect of ...
... live : we need not harden our courage with these arms of steel ; ' tis enough that our shoulders are inured to them : ' tis enough to dip our pens in ink , without dipping them in blood . If it be grandeur of courage , and the effect of ...
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... live private lives , not exposed to any other view than our own , ought chiefly to have settled a pattern within ourselves by which to try our actions ; and according to that , sometimes to encourage and sometimes to correct our- selves ...
... live private lives , not exposed to any other view than our own , ought chiefly to have settled a pattern within ourselves by which to try our actions ; and according to that , sometimes to encourage and sometimes to correct our- selves ...
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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.