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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Page 33
... matter by the consent of all my faculties , without divi- sion or intestine sedition ; my judgment is to have all the blame or all the praise ; and the blame it once has , it has always ; for almost from my infancy it has ever been one ...
... matter by the consent of all my faculties , without divi- sion or intestine sedition ; my judgment is to have all the blame or all the praise ; and the blame it once has , it has always ; for almost from my infancy it has ever been one ...
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... matters we have in hand , especially in the nature of men ; mute conditions , that make no show , unknown some- times even to the possessors themselves , that spring and start up by incidental occasions ; if my prudence could not ...
... matters we have in hand , especially in the nature of men ; mute conditions , that make no show , unknown some- times even to the possessors themselves , that spring and start up by incidental occasions ; if my prudence could not ...
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... matter of fact . But in things wherein I stand in need of nothing but judgment , other men's reasons may serve to fortify my own , but have little power to dis- suade me ; I hear them all with civility and patience : but , to my ...
... matter of fact . But in things wherein I stand in need of nothing but judgment , other men's reasons may serve to fortify my own , but have little power to dis- suade me ; I hear them all with civility and patience : but , to my ...
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... matter to exercise and enliven them ; mine has rather need of it to sit still and 1 " His parts were so pliable to all uses , that a man would think he had been born only for precisely that which he was at any time doing . " - Livy ...
... matter to exercise and enliven them ; mine has rather need of it to sit still and 1 " His parts were so pliable to all uses , that a man would think he had been born only for precisely that which he was at any time doing . " - Livy ...
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... matter enough of its own to make advantage of , and subjects proper enough where it may either invent or judge . Meditation is a powerful and full study to such as can effectually taste and employ themselves ; I had rather fashion my ...
... matter enough of its own to make advantage of , and subjects proper enough where it may either invent or judge . Meditation is a powerful and full study to such as can effectually taste and employ themselves ; I had rather fashion my ...
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Popular passages
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.