The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English, Volumen2J. Pote, E. Ballard, C. Bathurst [and 11 others], 1776 |
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... fuch inconfiftencies , • Vellem nefcire literas . Senec . de Clementia , lib . ii . cap . 1 . VOL . II . B confider confidering that irrefolution feems to me to be the most Of Cruelty Chap OF the Inconftancy F the Inconftancy of our ...
... fuch inconfiftencies , • Vellem nefcire literas . Senec . de Clementia , lib . ii . cap . 1 . VOL . II . B confider confidering that irrefolution feems to me to be the most Of Cruelty Chap OF the Inconftancy F the Inconftancy of our ...
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... fuch the motions of th ' inconftant foul . We fluctuate between various opinions , we will no- thing freely , nothing abfolutely , nothing conftantly . In a person who had prescribed and established deter- minate rules for his own ...
... fuch the motions of th ' inconftant foul . We fluctuate between various opinions , we will no- thing freely , nothing abfolutely , nothing conftantly . In a person who had prescribed and established deter- minate rules for his own ...
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... fuch things as may fall out ; yet fuch is the ftrangeness of our condition , that we are often prompted , even by vice itself , to do well , if well - doing were not judged by the intention only . A man therefore ought not to be deemed ...
... fuch things as may fall out ; yet fuch is the ftrangeness of our condition , that we are often prompted , even by vice itself , to do well , if well - doing were not judged by the intention only . A man therefore ought not to be deemed ...
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... fuch a rude medley of compounds , and thofe of fo various a contexture , that every piece plays every moment its own game ; and we are as different from our own felves as we are from each other : Magnam rem puta , unum homi- ņem agere ...
... fuch a rude medley of compounds , and thofe of fo various a contexture , that every piece plays every moment its own game ; and we are as different from our own felves as we are from each other : Magnam rem puta , unum homi- ņem agere ...
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... fuch profound drunkennefs , even Inftances and of profound drunkennefe . to a degree of fuffocation and death , if I inconveniencies had not read in hiftory what follows , viz . That Attalus having , to put a flagrant affront upon him ...
... fuch profound drunkennefs , even Inftances and of profound drunkennefe . to a degree of fuffocation and death , if I inconveniencies had not read in hiftory what follows , viz . That Attalus having , to put a flagrant affront upon him ...
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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...