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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... favour or pardon , draw in a criminal to confefs his guilt ; and to obferve what recourfe they therein have to tricking and impudence . It would be of good fervice to justice , and even to Plato himfelf , who countenances this man- ner ...
... favour or pardon , draw in a criminal to confefs his guilt ; and to obferve what recourfe they therein have to tricking and impudence . It would be of good fervice to justice , and even to Plato himfelf , who countenances this man- ner ...
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... favour and fecrecy . I have an open manner , which readily infinuates itfelf , and gains credit upon the firft acquaintance . Simplicity , and the naked truth , in what age foever , make their way , and find their account ; and moreover ...
... favour and fecrecy . I have an open manner , which readily infinuates itfelf , and gains credit upon the firft acquaintance . Simplicity , and the naked truth , in what age foever , make their way , and find their account ; and moreover ...
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... are able to do ; and content yourself also with a moderate degree of their favour , and to fwim in the troubled water with out attempting to fish in it . Double dealers how far ufeful . The other way of 6 MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS .
... are able to do ; and content yourself also with a moderate degree of their favour , and to fwim in the troubled water with out attempting to fish in it . Double dealers how far ufeful . The other way of 6 MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS .
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... favour which he had promifed , fent him bound hand and foot to Rome . Here one traitor betrayed another , contrary to the common cuftom ; for they are full of miftruft , and it is not eafy to over - reach them in their own art ; wit ...
... favour which he had promifed , fent him bound hand and foot to Rome . Here one traitor betrayed another , contrary to the common cuftom ; for they are full of miftruft , and it is not eafy to over - reach them in their own art ; wit ...
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... favour it had been undertaken . Who knows not the fentence of Fabricius against Pyrrhus's phyfician ? Inftances of trea- But we find this alfo recorded , that a man has given command for an action chery punished which he afterwards ...
... favour it had been undertaken . Who knows not the fentence of Fabricius against Pyrrhus's phyfician ? Inftances of trea- But we find this alfo recorded , that a man has given command for an action chery punished which he afterwards ...
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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...