The Essays of Michael de Montaigne, Band 3W. Miller, 1811 |
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... favours that side which I have refused , there is no remedy ; I do not blame myself for it : accuse my luck , and not my performance . This is not what we call repent- Counsel is ent of e- ance . Phocion had given certain advice to the ...
... favours that side which I have refused , there is no remedy ; I do not blame myself for it : accuse my luck , and not my performance . This is not what we call repent- Counsel is ent of e- ance . Phocion had given certain advice to the ...
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... favoured man with this privilege , that there is nothing we can hold out in so long , nor any action to which we more commonly , and more readily incline . It is the business of the gods , says Aristotle , and that from which proceeds ...
... favoured man with this privilege , that there is nothing we can hold out in so long , nor any action to which we more commonly , and more readily incline . It is the business of the gods , says Aristotle , and that from which proceeds ...
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... favour , and that they are not at a loss for an interpreter of the speeches made for their service . With this knowledge they govern with a high hand , and rule both the regents and the scholars . If nevertheless they think much to give ...
... favour , and that they are not at a loss for an interpreter of the speeches made for their service . With this knowledge they govern with a high hand , and rule both the regents and the scholars . If nevertheless they think much to give ...
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... favour us for this once if it please ; for as useful and desirable as it is , I suppose that , though we might want it , we could well enough dispense with it , and do our business without it . A person of good breeding , and used to ...
... favour us for this once if it please ; for as useful and desirable as it is , I suppose that , though we might want it , we could well enough dispense with it , and do our business without it . A person of good breeding , and used to ...
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... favour their dissimulation , which often happens , because there is none of the sex , though as ugly as the devil , who does not think herself very amiable , who does not think herself preferable , either for her youth , her hair , or ...
... favour their dissimulation , which often happens , because there is none of the sex , though as ugly as the devil , who does not think herself very amiable , who does not think herself preferable , either for her youth , her hair , or ...
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Seite 35 - I pass away most of the Days of my Life, and most of the Hours of the Day.
Seite 300 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Seite 256 - But such a companion should be chosen and acquired from your first setting out. There can be no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind, that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to communicate it to.
Seite 132 - Frigidus in Venerem senior, frustraque laborem Ingratum trahit ; et, si quando ad proelia ventum est, Ut quondam in stipulis magnus sine viribus ignis, Incassum furit.
Seite 320 - Nor is the profit small, the peasant makes, Who smooths with harrows, or who pounds with rakes, The crumbling clods: nor Ceres, from on high, Regards his...
Seite 125 - quando artibus' inquit 'honestis nullus in urbe locus, nulla emolumenta laborum, res hodie minor est here quam fuit atque eadem eras deteret exiguis aliquid, proponimus illuc ire, fatigatas ubi Daedalus exuit alas, 25 dum nova canities, dum prima et recta senectus, dum superest Lachesi quod torqueat et pedibus me porto meis nullo dextram subeunte bacillo...
Seite 239 - 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...
Seite 365 - nature," "pleasure," "circle," "substitution." The question is one of words, and is answered in the same way. "A stone is a body." But if you pressed on: "And what is a body?"— "Substance."— "And what is substance?
Seite 268 - ... fortuitous, and introduced for want of heed. Tis the indiligent reader who loses my subject, and not I; there will always be found some words or other in a corner, that is to the purpose, though it lie very close.
Seite 310 - A quick and earnest way of speaking as mine is, is apt to run into hyperbole. There is nothing to which men commonly are more inclined, than to give way to their own opinions.