The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English, Volumen2J. Pote, E. Ballard, C. Bathurst [and 11 others], 1776 |
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... Means employed to a good End 477 XXIV . Of the Roman Grandeur 483 XXV . Not to counterfeit Sickness 485 XXVI . Of Thumbs 488 XXVII . Cowardife the Mother of Cruelly 489 XXVIII . All Things have their Season . 501 XXIX . Of Virtue XXX ...
... Means employed to a good End 477 XXIV . Of the Roman Grandeur 483 XXV . Not to counterfeit Sickness 485 XXVI . Of Thumbs 488 XXVII . Cowardife the Mother of Cruelly 489 XXVIII . All Things have their Season . 501 XXIX . Of Virtue XXX ...
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... mean , for the pace may be either fafter or flower ) let him go ; fuch a one , according to the motto of our Talbot , is driven with the wind . " It is no wonder , fays one of the ancients † , that chance has fo great a power over us ...
... mean , for the pace may be either fafter or flower ) let him go ; fuch a one , according to the motto of our Talbot , is driven with the wind . " It is no wonder , fays one of the ancients † , that chance has fo great a power over us ...
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... mean , though nothing fhould difcompofe it , which a thoufand accidents are capable of doing . That great poet Lucretius fenced Kimself about with his philofophy to a fine purpofe , when , behold , he was put out of his fenfes by one ...
... mean , though nothing fhould difcompofe it , which a thoufand accidents are capable of doing . That great poet Lucretius fenced Kimself about with his philofophy to a fine purpofe , when , behold , he was put out of his fenfes by one ...
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... means to escape in the night ; but , being clofe pur- fued by his keepers , rather than be retaken , he ran himfelf through the body with + his own fword . An- tinous and Theodorus , when their city of Epirus ( Paf- faro ) was reduced ...
... means to escape in the night ; but , being clofe pur- fued by his keepers , rather than be retaken , he ran himfelf through the body with + his own fword . An- tinous and Theodorus , when their city of Epirus ( Paf- faro ) was reduced ...
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... means deftroyed himself before he was aware , not dreaming of death , or of any danger . Scribonia's ad- vice to her ne- phew to kill himfelf . Scribonia advifing Libo , her nephew , to kill himself , rather than wait for the ftroke of ...
... means deftroyed himself before he was aware , not dreaming of death , or of any danger . Scribonia's ad- vice to her ne- phew to kill himfelf . Scribonia advifing Libo , her nephew , to kill himself , rather than wait for the ftroke of ...
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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...