The Essayes, Volume 3B. Richards, 1908 |
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... conceit no lesse wounded by it selfe , then by others . I answered not long since , that hardly could I betray my Prince for a particular man , who should be very sory to betray a particular man for my Prince . And loath not onely to ...
... conceit no lesse wounded by it selfe , then by others . I answered not long since , that hardly could I betray my Prince for a particular man , who should be very sory to betray a particular man for my Prince . And loath not onely to ...
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... conceit , and writeth excellently , Repenting one may say his capacitie is borrowed , not of himselfe . A skilfull man , is not skilfull in all things : But a sufficient man , is sufficient every where , even unto ignorance . Here my ...
... conceit , and writeth excellently , Repenting one may say his capacitie is borrowed , not of himselfe . A skilfull man , is not skilfull in all things : But a sufficient man , is sufficient every where , even unto ignorance . Here my ...
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... conceit by divers objects to busie my judgement , not my memory . Few entertainements then , stay mee without vigour and force . T'is true that courtesie and beautie possesse mee , as much or more , then waight or depth . And because I ...
... conceit by divers objects to busie my judgement , not my memory . Few entertainements then , stay mee without vigour and force . T'is true that courtesie and beautie possesse mee , as much or more , then waight or depth . And because I ...
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... conceit , or fancie - full desire , for a thing I cannot obtaine ? My soft behaviours and milde manners , enemies to all sharpenesse and foes to all bitternesse , may easily have discharged mee from envie and contention . To bee beloved ...
... conceit , or fancie - full desire , for a thing I cannot obtaine ? My soft behaviours and milde manners , enemies to all sharpenesse and foes to all bitternesse , may easily have discharged mee from envie and contention . To bee beloved ...
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... conceit , there is no better way then to have recourse unto bookes : with ease they allure mee to them , and with facility they remoove them all . And though they per- ceive I neither frequent nor seeke them , but wanting other more ...
... conceit , there is no better way then to have recourse unto bookes : with ease they allure mee to them , and with facility they remoove them all . And though they per- ceive I neither frequent nor seeke them , but wanting other more ...
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according actions Alcibiades alwayes ammuse amongst Aristotle behold beleeve better body businesse cause choise Coaches commeth common conceit conscience contrary countenance custome dayes death desire discourse divers doth endevour Epicurus Epig esteeme evill excuse Experience farre Favorinus favour feare finde forso forsomuch fortune friends generall goeth grace greatnesse hand hate hath himselfe hold honest honour humour imagination IX Of Vanitie judge judgement kinde King lawes lawfull lesse liberty live manner matter meere minde mooved naturall nature neere never offend opinion OVID passion peradventure Phisiognomy Plato pleased pleasure Princes profit publike quæ reason Repenting runne saith seemeth selfe unto setled shee shew Socrates soever souldiers speake strange sufficiently Sunne therein things thinke thou tion trouble Vanitie CHAPTER verses of Virgil vertue vice VIRG Virgil CHAPTER warre whereof wherewith wise wisedome Xenophon yeeld yeeres
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Page 70 - Campania pinguis aratur, 5 nee miser aera paro clade, Corinthe, tua. O prima infelix fingenti terra Prometheo ! Ille parum cauti pectoris egit opus : corpora disponens mentem non vidit in arte. Recta animi primum debuit esse via.
Page 427 - ... that what is bred in the bone will never out of the flesh, and no doubt but this love was bred in the bone, even in the jaw-bone.
Page 382 - If it be a consummation of ones being, it is also an amendment and entrance into a long and quiet night. Wee finde nothing so sweete in life, as a quiet rest and gentle sleepe, and without dreames. The things I know to be wicked, as to wrong or offend ones neighbour : and to disobey his superiour, be he God or man, I carefully shunne them: Such as I know not whether they bee good or bad, I cannot feare them. If I goe to my death, and leave you alive: The Gods onely see, whether you or I shall prosper...
Page 113 - Audio, quid veteres olim moneatis amici: Pone seram, cohibe: sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes ? cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
Page 22 - Every man beareth the whole stampe of humane condition. Authors communicate themselves unto the world by some speciall and strange marke ; I the first, by my generall disposition ; as Michael de Montaigne; not as a Grammarian, or a Poet, or a Lawyer.
Page 436 - ... obstinately lingring, and unremoovably-obstinate. Let nature worke : Let hir have hir will : She knoweth what she hath to doe, and understands hir selfe better then we do. But such a one died of it, wil you say; so shal you doubtlesse; if not of that, yet of some other disease. And how many have we seene die when they have had a whole Colledge of Physitians round about their bed, and looking in their excrements?
Page 150 - I do others in this sport, doth more sweetly tickle my imagination, then that is done unto me. Now if no generous minde, can receive pleasure where he returneth none ; it is a base minde that would have all duty and delights to feed with conference, those under whose charge he remaineth. There is no beauty, nor favour, nor familiarity so exquisite, which a gallant minde should desire at this rate. Now if women can do us no good but in pittie, I had much rather not to live at all, then to live by...
Page 123 - All the world may know me by my booke, and my booke by me : But I am of an Apish and imitating condition. When I medled with making of verses (and I never made any but in Latine) they evidently accused the Poet I came last from reading : And of my first Essayes, some taste a little of the stranger. At Paris I speake somewhat otherwise then at Montaigne. Whom I behold with attention, doth easily convay and imprint something of his in me. What I heedily consider, the same I usurpe : a foolish countenance,...
Page 212 - Maior enim pars eo fere deferri solet, quo a natura ipsa deducitur. In quibus videndum est, non modo quid quisque loquatur, sed etiam quid quisque sentiat atque etiam de qua causa quisque sentiat.
Page 467 - Hee hath past his life in idlenesse, say we ; alas I have done nothing this day. What? have you not lived? It is not onely the fundamentall, but the noblest of your occupation. Had I beene placed or thought fit for the managing of great affaires, I would have shewed what I could have performed. Have you knowen how to meditate and manage your life? you have accomplished the greatest worke of all. For a man to shew and exploit himselfe, " nature hath no neede of fortune, she equally shewes herselfe...