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I could easily console myself for this corruption in regard to the public interest ; “ Pejoraque sęcula ferri Temporibus , quorum sceleri non invenit ipsa Nomen , et a nullo posuit natura metallo ; ' ? but not to my own .
I could easily console myself for this corruption in regard to the public interest ; “ Pejoraque sęcula ferri Temporibus , quorum sceleri non invenit ipsa Nomen , et a nullo posuit natura metallo ; ' ? but not to my own .
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| Title | 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 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, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne |
| Author | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne |
| Editor | William Carew Hazlitt |
| Translated by | Charles Cotton |
| Published | 1877 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 16 Aug 2006 |
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