The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English, Volumen2J. Pote, E. Ballard, C. Bathurst [and 11 others], 1776 |
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... Xenophon . It is a more easy task than the other , and therefore more proper for a gentleman fo far advanced in years . And then I know not how it is , but methinks , though he very briskly and clearly recovers himself when he has made ...
... Xenophon . It is a more easy task than the other , and therefore more proper for a gentleman fo far advanced in years . And then I know not how it is , but methinks , though he very briskly and clearly recovers himself when he has made ...
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... Xenophon , fay , that they search of truth . These judge that they , who think they have found it , are vaftly deceived ; and that it is alfo too daring a vanity in the fecond fort to affirm , that it is not in the power of man to ...
... Xenophon , fay , that they search of truth . These judge that they , who think they have found it , are vaftly deceived ; and that it is alfo too daring a vanity in the fecond fort to affirm , that it is not in the power of man to ...
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... Xenophon reports a like perplexity in the doctrine of Socrates ; one while affirming that men ought not to in- quire in the form of God , and presently making him maintain that the fun is God , and the foul God ; oné while , he fays ...
... Xenophon reports a like perplexity in the doctrine of Socrates ; one while affirming that men ought not to in- quire in the form of God , and presently making him maintain that the fun is God , and the foul God ; oné while , he fays ...
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... Xenophon , fpeaking of Anax- agoras , reputed by antiquity learned above all others in celestial and divine matters , fays , " that he had cracked " his brain , as all other men do , who too immoderately " search into knowledge of ...
... Xenophon , fpeaking of Anax- agoras , reputed by antiquity learned above all others in celestial and divine matters , fays , " that he had cracked " his brain , as all other men do , who too immoderately " search into knowledge of ...
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... Xenophon were a juft and folid bafis on which to fix and found their narratives : and it were alfo to be wifhed , that we had the Journals of Alexander the Great , and the Commentaries that Auguftus , Cato , Sylla , Brutus , and others ...
... Xenophon were a juft and folid bafis on which to fix and found their narratives : and it were alfo to be wifhed , that we had the Journals of Alexander the Great , and the Commentaries that Auguftus , Cato , Sylla , Brutus , and others ...
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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...