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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... truth forces it from him , and if he will not inwardly receive it , he at least puts it on for a decoration . Our outward and inward structure is full of imperfection ; but there is nothing useless in nature , not even inutility itself ...
... truth forces it from him , and if he will not inwardly receive it , he at least puts it on for a decoration . Our outward and inward structure is full of imperfection ; but there is nothing useless in nature , not even inutility itself ...
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... truth , in what age soever , pass for current ; and besides , the liberty and freedom of a man who treats without any interest of his own , is never hateful or suspected , and he may very well make use of the answer of Hyperides to the ...
... truth , in what age soever , pass for current ; and besides , the liberty and freedom of a man who treats without any interest of his own , is never hateful or suspected , and he may very well make use of the answer of Hyperides to the ...
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... truth , and I am not afraid to confess it , I should easily , in case of need , hold up one candle to St. Michael and another to his dragon , like the old woman ; I will follow the right side even to the fire , but excluding the fire if ...
... truth , and I am not afraid to confess it , I should easily , in case of need , hold up one candle to St. Michael and another to his dragon , like the old woman ; I will follow the right side even to the fire , but excluding the fire if ...
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... truth is one and simple ; that of particular profit , and the commodity of affairs a man is intrusted with , is double , unequal , and casual . I have often seen these counterfeit and artificial liberties practised , but , for the most ...
... truth is one and simple ; that of particular profit , and the commodity of affairs a man is intrusted with , is double , unequal , and casual . I have often seen these counterfeit and artificial liberties practised , but , for the most ...
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... truth . Could my soul once take footing , I would not essay but resolve : but it is always learning and making trial . I propose a life ordinary and without lustre : ' tis all one ; all moral philosophy may as well be applied to a ...
... truth . Could my soul once take footing , I would not essay but resolve : but it is always learning and making trial . I propose a life ordinary and without lustre : ' tis all one ; all moral philosophy may as well be applied to a ...
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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.