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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... excuse us for the non - perform- ance of a promife is , when we have promif- ed a thing that is wicked , and in itself un- juft . For the claim of virtue ought to force of any obligation of ours . In what cafe a private man is break his ...
... excuse us for the non - perform- ance of a promife is , when we have promif- ed a thing that is wicked , and in itself un- juft . For the claim of virtue ought to force of any obligation of ours . In what cafe a private man is break his ...
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... excuse . But , were the women to examine the matter more ftri & ly , they would find that it rather proceeded from contempt . I had a fuperftitious fear of giving offence , and have a hearty refpect where I love . Befides , he who in ...
... excuse . But , were the women to examine the matter more ftri & ly , they would find that it rather proceeded from contempt . I had a fuperftitious fear of giving offence , and have a hearty refpect where I love . Befides , he who in ...
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... excuse our neglect of the natural ones , and fo confound them That fuch is the cafe , it is vifible that in places where mistakes . are mifchiefs , the mischiefs are only mistakes : that in nations where the laws of decency are most ...
... excuse our neglect of the natural ones , and fo confound them That fuch is the cafe , it is vifible that in places where mistakes . are mifchiefs , the mischiefs are only mistakes : that in nations where the laws of decency are most ...
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... excuse more of their failings than men commonly do , in confideration of the vaft weight of their function , which really aftonishes me . It is difficult for fuch boundless power to preferve any decorum . Yet fo it is that , even to ...
... excuse more of their failings than men commonly do , in confideration of the vaft weight of their function , which really aftonishes me . It is difficult for fuch boundless power to preferve any decorum . Yet fo it is that , even to ...
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... excuse for having approved of the religion of his time , as it was enjoined by the laws , and for having been ignorant of the true religion . This was his misfortune , not his fault . I have principally confidered his judg- Whether he ...
... excuse for having approved of the religion of his time , as it was enjoined by the laws , and for having been ignorant of the true religion . This was his misfortune , not his fault . I have principally confidered his judg- Whether he ...
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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...