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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... serve for an instrument of deceit , let it be at least , with a safe conscience ; I will not be reputed a servant either so affectionate , or so loyal , as to be fit to betray any- one he , who is unfaithful to himself , is excusably so ...
... serve for an instrument of deceit , let it be at least , with a safe conscience ; I will not be reputed a servant either so affectionate , or so loyal , as to be fit to betray any- one he , who is unfaithful to himself , is excusably so ...
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... served , the more wickedly he judged it to be , and meriting greater punishment . The slave who betrayed the place where his master P. Sulpicius lay concealed , was , according to the promise of Sylla's proscription , manumitted for his ...
... served , the more wickedly he judged it to be , and meriting greater punishment . The slave who betrayed the place where his master P. Sulpicius lay concealed , was , according to the promise of Sylla's proscription , manumitted for his ...
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... serve justice by a parricide of their own . 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 ...
... serve justice by a parricide of their own . 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 ...
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... served the Roman senate for a pretence to the foul con- clusion I am going to relate , is not sufficient to warrant any such injustice . Certain cities had redeemed themselves and their liberty by money , by the order and consent of the ...
... served the Roman senate for a pretence to the foul con- clusion I am going to relate , is not sufficient to warrant any such injustice . Certain cities had redeemed themselves and their liberty by money , by the order and consent of the ...
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... serve virtue more painfully and highly , than those in authority do : we prepare 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 ...
... serve virtue more painfully and highly , than those in authority do : we prepare 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 ...
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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.