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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... humour with my whole frame , and pray to God for an entire reformation , and to excufe my natural infirmity ; but this is what I ought not to call repentance methinks , no more than a difguft that I am not an angel , nor a Cato . My ...
... humour with my whole frame , and pray to God for an entire reformation , and to excufe my natural infirmity ; but this is what I ought not to call repentance methinks , no more than a difguft that I am not an angel , nor a Cato . My ...
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... humour me in what I profefs , which is to fettle and wholly contain myself within myfelf . It is a pleasure to me to be difinterested in other men's affairs , and not to be any way refponfible for them . Was little trou- bled for events ...
... humour me in what I profefs , which is to fettle and wholly contain myself within myfelf . It is a pleasure to me to be difinterested in other men's affairs , and not to be any way refponfible for them . Was little trou- bled for events ...
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... humour , and such a bigot to his inclinations , that he is not able to turn afide from them . I fpeak it now at this time of life , when I find it hard to difengage myself from the uneafinefs of my mind , by reason that it cannot amuse ...
... humour , and such a bigot to his inclinations , that he is not able to turn afide from them . I fpeak it now at this time of life , when I find it hard to difengage myself from the uneafinefs of my mind , by reason that it cannot amuse ...
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... humour of mine to fe- parate from a thousand , to whom fortune has joined me , and without whom I cannot live , and stick to one or two that are out of the fphere of my correfpondence ? Or rather is it not a fantastical defire of a ...
... humour of mine to fe- parate from a thousand , to whom fortune has joined me , and without whom I cannot live , and stick to one or two that are out of the fphere of my correfpondence ? Or rather is it not a fantastical defire of a ...
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... humour as much as the plague . mend a mind of various qualities , which knows both to strain and flacken its vigour , that finds itself at ease in all stages of fortune , a man that can difcourfe with his neighbour about his building ...
... humour as much as the plague . mend a mind of various qualities , which knows both to strain and flacken its vigour , that finds itself at ease in all stages of fortune , a man that can difcourfe with his neighbour about his building ...
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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...