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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... pains : but accord- ing to the promise of the public justice , which was free from any such engagement , he was thrown headlong from the Tarpeian rock.1 Our King Clovis , instead of the arms of gold he had promised them , caused three ...
... pains : but accord- ing to the promise of the public justice , which was free from any such engagement , he was thrown headlong from the Tarpeian rock.1 Our King Clovis , instead of the arms of gold he had promised them , caused three ...
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... pain and death and poverty , to such an extreme degree of sweetness and compassion ? Dreadful in arms and blood , he overran and subdued a nation invin- cible by all others but by him alone ; and yet , in the heat of an encounter ...
... pain and death and poverty , to such an extreme degree of sweetness and compassion ? Dreadful in arms and blood , he overran and subdued a nation invin- cible by all others but by him alone ; and yet , in the heat of an encounter ...
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... pain , that they were so to fall out : they are in the great revolu- tion of the world , and in the chain of stoical causes : your fancy cannot , by wish and imagination , move one tittle , but that the great current of things will not ...
... pain , that they were so to fall out : they are in the great revolu- tion of the world , and in the chain of stoical causes : your fancy cannot , by wish and imagination , move one tittle , but that the great current of things will not ...
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... pains than pleasures : I see best in a clear sky ; health admonishes me more cheerfully , and to better pur- pose , than sickness . I did all that in me lay to reform and regulate myself from pleasures , at a time when I had health and ...
... pains than pleasures : I see best in a clear sky ; health admonishes me more cheerfully , and to better pur- pose , than sickness . I did all that in me lay to reform and regulate myself from pleasures , at a time when I had health and ...
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... painful re- formations . God must touch our hearts ; our consciences must amend of themselves , by the aid of our reason , and not by the decay of our appetites ; pleasure is , in itself , neither pale nor discoloured , to be discerned ...
... painful re- formations . God must touch our hearts ; our consciences must amend of themselves , by the aid of our reason , and not by the decay of our appetites ; pleasure is , in itself , neither pale nor discoloured , to be discerned ...
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according actions Æneid affairs Alcibiades amongst ancient appetite Aristippus Aristotle Aulus Gellius beauty better betwixt body Carneades cause chimæras Cicero common condition conscience contrary Cranaus custom Dæmons death desire Diogenes Laertius discourse disease effeminacy Epicurus example excuse fancy Favorinus favour fear folly fools forasmuch fortune friends give hand hate Herodotus honour humour imagination judge judgment justice king laws less liberty live Livy Lucretius manner matter means mind Montaigne moreover nature never obligation offend old age one's opinion ordinary ourselves pain passion peradventure philosopher physician Plato pleasant pleasure Plutarch Pomponius Mela present prince quæ quam reason seen sick sleep Socrates soever sort soul speak stomach Suetonius suffer Tacitus things thou thoughts tion trouble truth Tusc understanding vice vigour virtue vita wherein whilst whoever wise withal worse Xenophon
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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.