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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... give him . up the point if he does not confefs that there is no rule . in their school that could answer to this natural motion , and maintain an appearance of liberty and licence fo equal and inflexible through so many various and ...
... give him . up the point if he does not confefs that there is no rule . in their school that could answer to this natural motion , and maintain an appearance of liberty and licence fo equal and inflexible through so many various and ...
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... give you your liber- ty . It is wrong to say that an honeft man may be quit of his oath without payment , after he is out of their clutches . The cafe is quit otherwife . What fear has once prevailed on me to intend , I am obliged to ...
... give you your liber- ty . It is wrong to say that an honeft man may be quit of his oath without payment , after he is out of their clutches . The cafe is quit otherwife . What fear has once prevailed on me to intend , I am obliged to ...
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... give joy to a well - difpofed mind . There is really on inconceivable joy in a man's own breaft upon his doing good , and a generous boldness that accompanies a good confcience . A foul that is daringly vicious may per- haps arm itself ...
... give joy to a well - difpofed mind . There is really on inconceivable joy in a man's own breaft upon his doing good , and a generous boldness that accompanies a good confcience . A foul that is daringly vicious may per- haps arm itself ...
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... give favage forms to dæmons ; and who does not give Tamerlane large eye - brows , wide noftrils , a dreadful face , and a ftature beyond meafure , according to the conception he has formed from the report of his name ? Had any one ...
... give favage forms to dæmons ; and who does not give Tamerlane large eye - brows , wide noftrils , a dreadful face , and a ftature beyond meafure , according to the conception he has formed from the report of his name ? Had any one ...
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... give no fign of it ; yet there can- not be a cure till the evil be purged away . If repent- ance were to be put into one scale of the ballance it would out - weigh fin . I do not know of any quality fo easy to counterfeit as devotion ...
... give no fign of it ; yet there can- not be a cure till the evil be purged away . If repent- ance were to be put into one scale of the ballance it would out - weigh fin . I do not know of any quality fo easy to counterfeit as devotion ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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...