The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English, Volumen2J. Pote, E. Ballard, C. Bathurst [and 11 others], 1776 |
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... thou willeft be right ; for , if it be not right , the " fame thing cannot always please any one . " I have , indeed , formerly learned , that vice is nothing but the want of rule and meafure , and by confequence it is impof- fible to ...
... thou willeft be right ; for , if it be not right , the " fame thing cannot always please any one . " I have , indeed , formerly learned , that vice is nothing but the want of rule and meafure , and by confequence it is impof- fible to ...
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... thou lofeft time , I am still at eafe ; where is " that pain , where those torments with which thou didst " threaten me ? Is this all thou canst do ? My conftan- " cy gives thee more anguish than I fuffer from thy " cruelty . O pitiful ...
... thou lofeft time , I am still at eafe ; where is " that pain , where those torments with which thou didst " threaten me ? Is this all thou canst do ? My conftan- " cy gives thee more anguish than I fuffer from thy " cruelty . O pitiful ...
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... Thou fhalt fee , faid the boy , whom thou haft bought ; " it would be a fcandal for me to be a flave , when my + See the notable fayings of the Lace- dæmonians , collected by Plutarch , under the word Damindas . Ibid . under the name of ...
... Thou fhalt fee , faid the boy , whom thou haft bought ; " it would be a fcandal for me to be a flave , when my + See the notable fayings of the Lace- dæmonians , collected by Plutarch , under the word Damindas . Ibid . under the name of ...
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... thou complain of this world ? It does . not detain thee : if thou liveft in pain , thy own coward- ice is the cause of it ; there remains no more to die but to be willing to do it : Several ways to get rid of life . Ubique mors eft ...
... thou complain of this world ? It does . not detain thee : if thou liveft in pain , thy own coward- ice is the cause of it ; there remains no more to die but to be willing to do it : Several ways to get rid of life . Ubique mors eft ...
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... thou mayeft boast of having killed " much ftouter man than thyfelf . " a Fulvius fcorning him as a man out of his fenfes , and having , that very inftant , received letters from Rome , difapproving the inhumanity of his execution ...
... thou mayeft boast of having killed " much ftouter man than thyfelf . " a Fulvius fcorning him as a man out of his fenfes , and having , that very inftant , received letters from Rome , difapproving the inhumanity of his execution ...
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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...