The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English, Volumen2J. Pote, E. Ballard, C. Bathurst [and 11 others], 1776 |
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... Some fecret folace to an anxious mind , Shifting from place to place , if here or there They might fet down the burthen of their care . Every day a new whim starts , and our humours change with the times : Tales funt bominum mentes ...
... Some fecret folace to an anxious mind , Shifting from place to place , if here or there They might fet down the burthen of their care . Every day a new whim starts , and our humours change with the times : Tales funt bominum mentes ...
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... some disease , or lifted from its place by fome celestial rapture . CHA P. III . The Cuftom of the Ifle of Cea , in the Ægean Sea , or Archipelago . I F to philofophize be , as they fay , to doubt , much more ought my frolickfome and ...
... some disease , or lifted from its place by fome celestial rapture . CHA P. III . The Cuftom of the Ifle of Cea , in the Ægean Sea , or Archipelago . I F to philofophize be , as they fay , to doubt , much more ought my frolickfome and ...
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... Some years ago , when the island of Gozo || Death preferred was taken by the Turks , a Sicilian who had two beautiful daughters ripe for marriage , killed them firft , and then the mother , as fhe was running in to fave them : this done ...
... Some years ago , when the island of Gozo || Death preferred was taken by the Turks , a Sicilian who had two beautiful daughters ripe for marriage , killed them firft , and then the mother , as fhe was running in to fave them : this done ...
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... some par- ticle which , by the contrariety of its nature , serves as an antidote to its own poifon . In like manner , at the fame inftant that a man feels a pleasure in vice , there is a fting at the tail of it in the confcience , which ...
... some par- ticle which , by the contrariety of its nature , serves as an antidote to its own poifon . In like manner , at the fame inftant that a man feels a pleasure in vice , there is a fting at the tail of it in the confcience , which ...
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... Some abandoned their riches , to exer- cife themselves in a voluntary poverty ; others fought for labour ; and the aufterity of a painful life , to The whole story is at large , and well attefted , in Froiffart's Hif- tory , vol . iv ...
... Some abandoned their riches , to exer- cife themselves in a voluntary poverty ; others fought for labour ; and the aufterity of a painful life , to The whole story is at large , and well attefted , in Froiffart's Hif- tory , vol . iv ...
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Página 399 - He is often surprised between the hedge and the ditch ; he must run the hazard of his life against a henroost ; he must dislodge four rascally musketeers out of a barn ; he must prick out single from his party, as necessity arises, and meet adventures alone.
Página 403 - I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own ; I would be rich of myself, and not by borrowing.
Página 225 - For it is written, I will deftroy the wifdom of the wife^ " and will bring to nothing the underftanding of the prudent. " Where is the wife ? Where- is the fcribe ? Where is the difputer '* of this world ? Hath not God made foolifh the "wifdom of this
Página 518 - my sword and shield prepare !" He breathes defiance, blood, and mortal war. So when with crackling flames a cauldron fries, The bubbling waters from the bottom rise ; Above the brims they force their fiery way ; Black vapours climb aloft and cloud the day.
Página 398 - To what do Caesar and Alexander owe the infinite grandeur of their renown, but to fortune? How many men has she extinguished in the beginning of their progress, of whom we have no knowledge; who brought as much courage to the work as they, if their adverse hap had not cut them off in the first sally of their arms? Amongst so many and so great dangers, I do not remember...