The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English, Volumen2J. Pote, E. Ballard, C. Bathurst [and 11 others], 1776 |
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... fame per- fon . We find the younger Marius one while a son of Mars , and another the fon of Venus . Pope Boniface VIII is faid to have entered on the papacy like a fox , to have behaved in it like a lion , and to have died like a dog ...
... fame per- fon . We find the younger Marius one while a son of Mars , and another the fon of Venus . Pope Boniface VIII is faid to have entered on the papacy like a fox , to have behaved in it like a lion , and to have died like a dog ...
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... fame thing always , and always not to will it + . I " need not add this fmall exception , provided that what " thou willeft be right ; for , if it be not right , the " fame thing cannot always please any one . " I have , indeed ...
... fame thing always , and always not to will it + . I " need not add this fmall exception , provided that what " thou willeft be right ; for , if it be not right , the " fame thing cannot always please any one . " I have , indeed ...
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... fame alone , and in company ; the fame in the lifts as in the field of battle : for let them fay what they will , the valour in the tilt - yard and in the field , is one and the fame . The man of true valour would bear a fit of fickness ...
... fame alone , and in company ; the fame in the lifts as in the field of battle : for let them fay what they will , the valour in the tilt - yard and in the field , is one and the fame . The man of true valour would bear a fit of fickness ...
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... fame . All we perform is no other than patch - work , and we aim at acquiring ho- nour by falfe tokens . Virtue only to be courted for its own fake . Virtue does not require to be courted but for its own fake , and , if it fometimes ...
... fame . All we perform is no other than patch - work , and we aim at acquiring ho- nour by falfe tokens . Virtue only to be courted for its own fake . Virtue does not require to be courted but for its own fake , and , if it fometimes ...
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... fame opinion ; but though they are equally vices , yet they are not fuch in an equal degree ; and that he who has gone a hundred yards beyond the limits , ' vices more enor- mous than o- thers . Quos ultra citraque nequit confiftere ...
... fame opinion ; but though they are equally vices , yet they are not fuch in an equal degree ; and that he who has gone a hundred yards beyond the limits , ' vices more enor- mous than o- thers . Quos ultra citraque nequit confiftere ...
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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...