The Essays of Michael de Montaigne, Volume 3W. Miller, 1811 - French essays |
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... fear it would not have so much strength to resist it as it had heretofore . I do not find that it has any other notion of pleasure now than it had then , nor that it has acquired any new light ; wherefore if there be a recovery it is a ...
... fear it would not have so much strength to resist it as it had heretofore . I do not find that it has any other notion of pleasure now than it had then , nor that it has acquired any new light ; wherefore if there be a recovery it is a ...
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... fear the future ; and , if I do not deceive myself , I have been much the same within as without . I am principally obliged to my fortune , that the course of my bodily estate has been carried on in every thing in its sea- son . I have ...
... fear the future ; and , if I do not deceive myself , I have been much the same within as without . I am principally obliged to my fortune , that the course of my bodily estate has been carried on in every thing in its sea- son . I have ...
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... fears , Their anger and their joys , their griefs and cares , And vent the secrets of their souls ; what more ? In the same learned phrase they play the whore . They quote Plato and St. Thomas in things for which the first person they ...
... fears , Their anger and their joys , their griefs and cares , And vent the secrets of their souls ; what more ? In the same learned phrase they play the whore . They quote Plato and St. Thomas in things for which the first person they ...
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... fear that the men who advise them , do it that they may there- by have authority to be their masters . For what other excuse can I find for them . It is enough that they can , without our instruction , give the charms of their eyes an ...
... fear that the men who advise them , do it that they may there- by have authority to be their masters . For what other excuse can I find for them . It is enough that they can , without our instruction , give the charms of their eyes an ...
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... fear of danger . For it is certain that from such a proceeding no fruit can be expected to satisfy an honest soul . A man cannot take real pleasure in the enjoyment of what he has not in good earnest desired ; and this I say , though ...
... fear of danger . For it is certain that from such a proceeding no fruit can be expected to satisfy an honest soul . A man cannot take real pleasure in the enjoyment of what he has not in good earnest desired ; and this I say , though ...
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Page 35 - I pass away most of the Days of my Life, and most of the Hours of the Day.
Page 300 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Page 256 - But such a companion should be chosen and acquired from your first setting out. There can be no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind, that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to communicate it to.
Page 132 - Frigidus in Venerem senior, frustraque laborem Ingratum trahit ; et, si quando ad proelia ventum est, Ut quondam in stipulis magnus sine viribus ignis, Incassum furit.
Page 320 - Nor is the profit small, the peasant makes, Who smooths with harrows, or who pounds with rakes, The crumbling clods: nor Ceres, from on high, Regards his...
Page 125 - quando artibus' inquit 'honestis nullus in urbe locus, nulla emolumenta laborum, res hodie minor est here quam fuit atque eadem eras deteret exiguis aliquid, proponimus illuc ire, fatigatas ubi Daedalus exuit alas, 25 dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, dum superest Lachesi quod torqueat et pedibus me porto meis nullo dextram subeunte bacillo...
Page 239 - Tis the supreme quality of a woman, which a man ought to seek before any other, as the only dowry that must ruin or preserve our houses. Let men say what they will according to the experience I have learned, I require in married women the economical virtue above all other virtues...
Page 365 - nature," "pleasure," "circle," "substitution." The question is one of words, and is answered in the same way. "A stone is a body." But if you pressed on: "And what is a body?"— "Substance."— "And what is substance?
Page 268 - ... fortuitous, and introduced for want of heed. Tis the indiligent reader who loses my subject, and not I; there will always be found some words or other in a corner, that is to the purpose, though it lie very close.
Page 310 - A quick and earnest way of speaking as mine is, is apt to run into hyperbole. There is nothing to which men commonly are more inclined, than to give way to their own opinions.