 | Michel de Montaigne - French essays - 1811 - 556 pages
...contradicted, it rouses my attention, but not my indignation. I incline towards him who contradicts and instructs me. The cause of truth ought to be the common cause of both the one and the other. What answer will he make ? The passion of anger has already given a... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...contradicts me, he rai~ : my attention, not my anger ; I advance towanls liiiu that controverts, that tins with cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long ; one i:"i the other. * * I embrace and caress truth in what hand soever I find it, and cheerfully surn::i.'... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...enough if it be not quarrelsome ; if civilised and artificial, if it treads nicely, and fears the shock. y that controverts, that instructs me. The cause of truth ought to be the common cause both of one n'nl... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...enough if it be not quarrelsome ; if civilised and artificial, if it treads nicely, and feare the shock. th dismal that controverts, that instructs me. The cause of truth ought to be the common cause both of one and... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1849 - 698 pages
...; Nequr enim disputuri sine reprehensione potent.1 " For no man can dispute without reprehending." When any one contradicts me, he raises my attention, not my anger ; I advance towards him that controverts, as to one that instructs me : the cause of truth ought to be the common cause of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...it be not quarrelsome ; if civilised ami artificial, if it treads nicely, and feari the shock. \Vhen behind, is that controverts, that instructs me. The cause of truth ought to be the common cause both of one and... | |
 | Delia Salter Bacon - 1857 - 706 pages
...be rudely handled by my friends. ' Thou art a fool ; thou knowest not what thou art talking about.' When any one contradicts me, he raises my attention, not my anger. I advance towards him that contradicts, as to one that instructs me. I embrace and caress truth, in what hand soever I find... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1859 - 524 pages
...Neque enim disputari, sine reprehensione, potest.1 " For no man can dispute without reprehending." When any one contradicts me, he raises my attention, not my anger ; I advance towards him that controverts, as to one that instructs me ; the cause of truth ought to be the common cause of... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1870 - 700 pages
...reprehensione potest."—Cicero definib. I. I. " Neither can a man dispute, but he must reprehend." When any one contradicts me, he raises my attention, not my anger : I advance towards him that controverts and instructs me. The cause of truth ought to be the common cause both of one and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...enough if it be not quarrelsome; if civilized and artificial, if it treads nicely, and fears the shock. sometimes it is used so as to take in more. And that this faculty tends to restrain men that controverts, that instructs me. The cause of truth ought to be the common cause both of one and... | |
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... love in biting and scratching : it is not vigorous and generous enough, if it be not quarrelsome, if... 
