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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... wherein he quitted the profitable for the honest . You will tell me that he was a braggadocio ; I believe so too : and ' tis no great miracle in men of his profession . But the acknowledgment of virtue is not less valid in the mouth of ...
... wherein he quitted the profitable for the honest . You will tell me that he was a braggadocio ; I believe so too : and ' tis no great miracle in men of his profession . But the acknowledgment of virtue is not less valid in the mouth of ...
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... wherein a man must of necessity be of the one side or the other ; though for a man who has no office or express command to call him out , to sit still , I hold it more excusable ( and yet I do not excuse myself upon these terms ) than ...
... wherein a man must of necessity be of the one side or the other ; though for a man who has no office or express command to call him out , to sit still , I hold it more excusable ( and yet I do not excuse myself upon these terms ) than ...
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... wherein he is employed , or that there be any reservation in the thing ; for my part , I am content to know no more of the business than what they would have me employ myself in , nor desire that my knowledge should exceed or restrict ...
... wherein he is employed , or that there be any reservation in the thing ; for my part , I am content to know no more of the business than what they would have me employ myself in , nor desire that my knowledge should exceed or restrict ...
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... wherein we live : we need not harden our courage with these arms of steel ; ' tis enough that our shoulders are inured to them : ' tis enough to dip our pens in ink , without dipping them in blood . If it be grandeur of courage , and ...
... wherein we live : we need not harden our courage with these arms of steel ; ' tis enough that our shoulders are inured to them : ' tis enough to dip our pens in ink , without dipping them in blood . If it be grandeur of courage , and ...
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... wherein the good opinion of the vulgar is injurious : upon whom do you rely to show you what is recommendable ? God defend me from being an honest man , according to the descriptions of honour I daily see every one make of him- self ...
... wherein the good opinion of the vulgar is injurious : upon whom do you rely to show you what is recommendable ? God defend me from being an honest man , according to the descriptions of honour I daily see every one make of him- self ...
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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.