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 81
... Thou , goddess , alone governest nature : without thee nothing comes into light ; nothing is pleasant , nothing joyful . " - Lucretius , i . 22 . VOL . III . F I know not who could set Pallas and the Muses Chap . 5. ] 81 Upon some ...
... Thou , goddess , alone governest nature : without thee nothing comes into light ; nothing is pleasant , nothing joyful . " - Lucretius , i . 22 . VOL . III . F I know not who could set Pallas and the Muses Chap . 5. ] 81 Upon some ...
Page 97
... thou- sand ills , till , having imbibed the fruit of the common thirst , it has plentifully bedewed the bottom of their matrix . Now my legislator should also have considered , that , peradven- ture , it were a chaster and more fruitful ...
... thou- sand ills , till , having imbibed the fruit of the common thirst , it has plentifully bedewed the bottom of their matrix . Now my legislator should also have considered , that , peradven- ture , it were a chaster and more fruitful ...
Page 103
... thou wilt be dragged out of doors by the heels , and suffer the punishment of thy adultery . ” — Catullus , xv . 17 . 4 " One of the merry gods said he should himself like to be so disgraced . " -Ovid , Metam . , iv . 187 . 5 " Why make ...
... thou wilt be dragged out of doors by the heels , and suffer the punishment of thy adultery . ” — Catullus , xv . 17 . 4 " One of the merry gods said he should himself like to be so disgraced . " -Ovid , Metam . , iv . 187 . 5 " Why make ...
Page 119
... thou makest thyself too merry at times : men will think thou sayest a thing in good earnest which thou only speakest in jest . " " Yes , " say I , " but I correct the faults of inadvertence , not those of custom . Do I not talk at the ...
... thou makest thyself too merry at times : men will think thou sayest a thing in good earnest which thou only speakest in jest . " " Yes , " say I , " but I correct the faults of inadvertence , not those of custom . Do I not talk at the ...
Page 125
... thou think thou art too much at ease , unless half thy ease is uneasy ? dost thou find that thou hast not performed all the ne- cessary offices that nature has enjoined thee , and that she is idle in thee , if thou dost not oblige ...
... thou think thou art too much at ease , unless half thy ease is uneasy ? dost thou find that thou hast not performed all the ne- cessary offices that nature has enjoined thee , and that she is idle in thee , if thou dost not oblige ...
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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.