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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... ourselves by which to try our actions ; and according to that , sometimes to encourage and sometimes to correct our- selves . I have my laws and my judicature to judge of myself , and apply myself more to these than to any other rules ...
... ourselves by which to try our actions ; and according to that , sometimes to encourage and sometimes to correct our- selves . I have my laws and my judicature to judge of myself , and apply myself more to these than to any other rules ...
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... ourselves for eminent occasions , more out of glory than conscience . The shortest way to arrive at glory , would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory and the virtue of Alexander ap- pears to me of much less vigour in his ...
... ourselves for eminent occasions , more out of glory than conscience . The shortest way to arrive at glory , would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory and the virtue of Alexander ap- pears to me of much less vigour in his ...
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... ourselves guilty of , but forbid us therefore to disturb the repose of our souls : these make us believe that they have great grief and remorse within : but of amendment , correc- tion , or interruption , they make nothing appear . It ...
... ourselves guilty of , but forbid us therefore to disturb the repose of our souls : these make us believe that they have great grief and remorse within : but of amendment , correc- tion , or interruption , they make nothing appear . It ...
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... ourselves to be so wholly carried away by natural alterations , as to suffer our judg- ments to be imposed upon by them . Youth and pleasure have not formerly so far prevailed with me , that I did not well enough discern the face of ...
... ourselves to be so wholly carried away by natural alterations , as to suffer our judg- ments to be imposed upon by them . Youth and pleasure have not formerly so far prevailed with me , that I did not well enough discern the face of ...
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... ourselves so fast to our humours and complexions : our chiefest sufficiency is to know how to apply ourselves to divers employments . ' Tis to be , but not to live , to keep a man's self tied and bound by necessity to one only course ...
... ourselves so fast to our humours and complexions : our chiefest sufficiency is to know how to apply ourselves to divers employments . ' Tis to be , but not to live , to keep a man's self tied and bound by necessity to one only course ...
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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.