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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... as we design those horses for stallions , of which we have the least esteem . CHAPTER II . OF REPENTANCE . OTHERS form ... age to another , or , as the people say , from seven to seven years , but from day to day , from minute to minute ...
... as we design those horses for stallions , of which we have the least esteem . CHAPTER II . OF REPENTANCE . OTHERS form ... age to another , or , as the people say , from seven to seven years , but from day to day , from minute to minute ...
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... as we may well suppose that in a more excellent nature they would have been carried on with greater dignity and perfection ; and we would that ours were so . When I reflect upon the deportments of my youth , with that of my old age , I ...
... as we may well suppose that in a more excellent nature they would have been carried on with greater dignity and perfection ; and we would that ours were so . When I reflect upon the deportments of my youth , with that of my old age , I ...
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... old age brings along with it . He , who said of old , 1 that he was obliged to his age for having weaned him from pleasure , was of another opinion than I am ; I can never think myself beholden to impotency , for any good it can do to ...
... old age brings along with it . He , who said of old , 1 that he was obliged to his age for having weaned him from pleasure , was of another opinion than I am ; I can never think myself beholden to impotency , for any good it can do to ...
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... age , except , perhaps , that ' tis weaker and more decayed by being grown older ; and I find that the pleasure it refuses me upon the account of my bodily health , it would no more refuse now , in consideration of the health of my soul ...
... age , except , perhaps , that ' tis weaker and more decayed by being grown older ; and I find that the pleasure it refuses me upon the account of my bodily health , it would no more refuse now , in consideration of the health of my soul ...
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... ages ; but it was more active , and of better grace whilst young and sprightly , than now it is when broken , peevish ... old age , are subject to more troublesome maladies and imperfections than in youth ; I said the Chap . 2. ] 39 Of ...
... ages ; but it was more active , and of better grace whilst young and sprightly , than now it is when broken , peevish ... old age , are subject to more troublesome maladies and imperfections than in youth ; I said the Chap . 2. ] 39 Of ...
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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.