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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... most reserved , and pretend to be the men of the greatest moderation , and the nearest comformity to the fentiments of those with whom they have to do . I fpeak fincerely what I think , and in my own manner ; being a tender negociator ...
... most reserved , and pretend to be the men of the greatest moderation , and the nearest comformity to the fentiments of those with whom they have to do . I fpeak fincerely what I think , and in my own manner ; being a tender negociator ...
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... most part without fuccefs . They are apt to relifh of the afs in Efop's Fables , which , in emulation of the dog , fawning- ly clapped his two fore - feet upon his mafter's fhoulders , for which his mafter gave him twice the number of ...
... most part without fuccefs . They are apt to relifh of the afs in Efop's Fables , which , in emulation of the dog , fawning- ly clapped his two fore - feet upon his mafter's fhoulders , for which his mafter gave him twice the number of ...
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... most abandoned mifcreants in the office of hangman , an office as useful as it is dishonourable . Befides the bafenefs of fuch com- miffioners , there is moreover a proftitution of confci- ence . Sejanus's daughter being a virgin , and ...
... most abandoned mifcreants in the office of hangman , an office as useful as it is dishonourable . Befides the bafenefs of fuch com- miffioners , there is moreover a proftitution of confci- ence . Sejanus's daughter being a virgin , and ...
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... most neceffary , and the moft useful action of human fociety , it would be marriage ; yet the faints think celibacy the more honourable ftate , exclud- ing the moft venerable order of men from it , as we fet apart those cattle for ...
... most neceffary , and the moft useful action of human fociety , it would be marriage ; yet the faints think celibacy the more honourable ftate , exclud- ing the moft venerable order of men from it , as we fet apart those cattle for ...
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... most alluring beauty . I know both the one and the other , I have a right to fay it : but it feems to me that in old age our minds are fubject to more troublesome maladies and imperfections than they are in youth . I faid the fame when ...
... most alluring beauty . I know both the one and the other , I have a right to fay it : but it feems to me that in old age our minds are fubject to more troublesome maladies and imperfections than they are in youth . I faid the fame when ...
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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...