The Essays of Michael de Montaigne, Volumen2C. Baldwin, 1811 |
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... need sometimes of two Greek pieces to make up one Latin one . See the prologue to his Eunuch . + Hor . lib . ii . ep . 2 , ver . 120 . Passionate Rant of Lovers , Compari- son be- tween the 64 admire the equal smoothness OF BOOKS . 7 :
... need sometimes of two Greek pieces to make up one Latin one . See the prologue to his Eunuch . + Hor . lib . ii . ep . 2 , ver . 120 . Passionate Rant of Lovers , Compari- son be- tween the 64 admire the equal smoothness OF BOOKS . 7 :
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... passion , un- doubtedly performs much more . The first would do well , and the latter virtuously . One action might be called good - nature , the other virtue . For me- Virtue not thinks the very name of Virtue presupposes difficulty ...
... passion , un- doubtedly performs much more . The first would do well , and the latter virtuously . One action might be called good - nature , the other virtue . For me- Virtue not thinks the very name of Virtue presupposes difficulty ...
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... passion ; there was , methinks , in that man's virtue too much sprightliness and youth to stop there . I make no doubt but he felt a pleasure and delight in so noble an action , and that it was more agreeable to him than any thing he ...
... passion ; there was , methinks , in that man's virtue too much sprightliness and youth to stop there . I make no doubt but he felt a pleasure and delight in so noble an action , and that it was more agreeable to him than any thing he ...
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... passion under the circumstances of imprison- The cheer - ment , fetters , and condemnation ? Who is there that ... passions , that 26 OF CRUELTY .
... passion under the circumstances of imprison- The cheer - ment , fetters , and condemnation ? Who is there that ... passions , that 26 OF CRUELTY .
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... passions , be obliged to arm and op- pose their progress , and to conquer them ; and that this second effect is not also much more noble than to be only furnished with an easy debonnair temper , disgusted of itself with debauchery and ...
... passions , be obliged to arm and op- pose their progress , and to conquer them ; and that this second effect is not also much more noble than to be only furnished with an easy debonnair temper , disgusted of itself with debauchery and ...
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Página 214 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Página 178 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Página 206 - With breath are quickened and attract their souls; Hence take the forms his prescience did ordain, And into him at length resolve again. No room is left for death...
Página 125 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Página 315 - I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own ; I would be rich of myself, and not by borrowing.
Página 492 - What a wonderful thing it is that the drop of seed from which we are produced should carry in itself the impression not only of the bodily form, but even of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!
Página 311 - To what do Caesar and Alexander owe the infinite grandeur of their renown, but to fortune ? How many men has she extinguished in the beginning of their progress, of whom we have no knowledge ; who brought as much courage to the work as they, if their adverse hap had not cut them off in the first sally of their arms ? Amongst so many and so great dangers, I do not remember...
Página 311 - He is often surprised between the hedge and the ditch ; he must run the hazard of his life against a henroost ; he must dislodge four rascally musketeers out of a barn ; he must prick out single from his party, as necessity arises, and meet adventures alone.
Página 459 - Prone thro' the void the rocky ruin shoots, Rolling from crag to crag, from steep to steep ; Down sink, at once, the shepherds and their sheep...