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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... things ; but the worst on't is , when a man studies to play the fool . " Næ iste magno conatu magnas nugas dixerit ... thing of so great importance to him ? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit , they 1 " Truly he ...
... things ; but the worst on't is , when a man studies to play the fool . " Næ iste magno conatu magnas nugas dixerit ... thing of so great importance to him ? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit , they 1 " Truly he ...
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... things either indifferent or known , or what is of common consequence . I cannot permit my- self , for any consideration , to tell them a lie . What is intrusted to my secrecy , I religiously conceal ; but I take as few trusts of that ...
... things either indifferent or known , or what is of common consequence . I cannot permit my- self , for any consideration , to tell them a lie . What is intrusted to my secrecy , I religiously conceal ; but I take as few trusts of that ...
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... things , so as to call some natural actions , that are not only profitable but necessary , dishonest , and foul . But let us proceed in our examples of treachery : two pretenders to the kingdom of Thrace were fallen into dis- pute about ...
... things , so as to call some natural actions , that are not only profitable but necessary , dishonest , and foul . But let us proceed in our examples of treachery : two pretenders to the kingdom of Thrace were fallen into dis- pute about ...
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... things , you will lose your time , for it is to no purpose . " Every one ought to make the same vow to himself ... thing , nor , peradventure , without some colour of justice , if the same person ruin you , who set you on work . 2 If ...
... things , you will lose your time , for it is to no purpose . " Every one ought to make the same vow to himself ... thing , nor , peradventure , without some colour of justice , if the same person ruin you , who set you on work . 2 If ...
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... things that , perhaps , ought to be dearer to him than his own safety , or even the safety of his people . Though he should , with folded arms , only call God to his assistance , has he not reason to hope that 1 Cromer , De Rebus Polon ...
... things that , perhaps , ought to be dearer to him than his own safety , or even the safety of his people . Though he should , with folded arms , only call God to his assistance , has he not reason to hope that 1 Cromer , De Rebus Polon ...
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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.