The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English, Volumen3J. Pote, E. Ballard, C. Bathurst [and 11 others], 1776 - 926 páginas |
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... set you at work . Treachery , in what cafe ex . cufeable . If treachery ought to be excufed in any cafe , it is only fo when employed in chaf- tifing and betraying the traitor . There are examples enough of treachery , not only where it ...
... set you at work . Treachery , in what cafe ex . cufeable . If treachery ought to be excufed in any cafe , it is only fo when employed in chaf- tifing and betraying the traitor . There are examples enough of treachery , not only where it ...
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... set forth our courtship and compliments , they give you plainly to understand , that we bring them nothing which they did not know before , and had digested with- out our affistance . Would you think with Plato , that they were ...
... set forth our courtship and compliments , they give you plainly to understand , that we bring them nothing which they did not know before , and had digested with- out our affistance . Would you think with Plato , that they were ...
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... Set a ftrict watch ; but who fhall watch the fpies ? Them first she bribes , and all your art defies . } What conveniency can they be at a lofs for in fo know , ing an age as the prefent ? Curiofity in the ' article of wo men's chastity ...
... Set a ftrict watch ; but who fhall watch the fpies ? Them first she bribes , and all your art defies . } What conveniency can they be at a lofs for in fo know , ing an age as the prefent ? Curiofity in the ' article of wo men's chastity ...
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... set off a language by their way of handling and managing it ; not fo much innovating it , as by putting it to more vi- gorous and various fervices , and ftraining and bending it to them . They do not introduce new terms into it , but ...
... set off a language by their way of handling and managing it ; not fo much innovating it , as by putting it to more vi- gorous and various fervices , and ftraining and bending it to them . They do not introduce new terms into it , but ...
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... set upon them ? Plato orders , in his laws , that whoever performed any fignal and advantageous exploit in war , fhould not , while it lafted , be denied a kiss , or any other amorous favour , by any woman whatsoever , his deformity or ...
... set upon them ? Plato orders , in his laws , that whoever performed any fignal and advantageous exploit in war , fhould not , while it lafted , be denied a kiss , or any other amorous favour , by any woman whatsoever , his deformity or ...
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Página 250 - Tis the supreme quality of a woman, which a man ought to seek before any other, as the only dowry that must ruin or preserve our houses. Let men say what they will, according to the experience I have learned, I require in married women the economical virtue above all other virtues...
Página 201 - ... reason. Those who have a lively imagination are a great deal more pleased with themselves than the wise can reasonably be. They look down upon men with haughtiness; they argue with boldness and confidence, others with fear and diffidence; and this gaiety of countenance often gives them the advantage in the opinion of the hearers, such favour have the imaginary wise in the eyes of judges of like nature.
Página 224 - The great and tedious debates," says a sensible French writer of the old political school, " about the best form of society, are only proper for the exercise of wit ; and have their being only in agitation and controversy. A new form of government might be of some value in a new world ; but ours is a world ready made to our hands, and in which each distinct form is blended by custom. We do not, like Pyrrho and Cadmus, make the world ; and by whatever authority it is we assert the privilege of setting...
Página 294 - is a friend to all men." The principal charge we have is, to every one to take care of himself: and it is for this that we here live.
Página 326 - How much more natural and likely do I find it that two men should lie than that one man in twelve hours' time should fly with the wind from east to west ? How much more natural that our understanding should be carried from its place by the volubility of our disordered minds, than that one of us should be carried by a strange spirit upon a...