The Essays of Michael de Montaigne, Band 3W. Miller, 1811 |
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... nature , and of frail nature too ? Is not writing books without learning like building a wall without stone or brick ? The fancies of music are carried on by art , mine by chance . I have this at least , according to discipline , that ...
... nature , and of frail nature too ? Is not writing books without learning like building a wall without stone or brick ? The fancies of music are carried on by art , mine by chance . I have this at least , according to discipline , that ...
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... nature con- demn , but those also which have been made such in the opinion of men , however false and erroneous , if it is authorised by the laws and custom . Nor is there any virtue the practice of which does is connect not give joy to ...
... nature con- demn , but those also which have been made such in the opinion of men , however false and erroneous , if it is authorised by the laws and custom . Nor is there any virtue the practice of which does is connect not give joy to ...
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... natures , more sublime and regular than mine ; yet I do not amend my faculties , forasmuch as neither my arm nor my mind ... nature they would be conducted with greater perfec- tion and dignity ; and we would wish to do the same . When I ...
... natures , more sublime and regular than mine ; yet I do not amend my faculties , forasmuch as neither my arm nor my mind ... nature they would be conducted with greater perfec- tion and dignity ; and we would wish to do the same . When I ...
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... nature , certain silent conditions that make no show , and are un- known sometimes even to the possessor , which start and spring up from incidental causes . If my pru- dence could not penetrate into , or foretel them , I am not ...
... nature , certain silent conditions that make no show , and are un- known sometimes even to the possessor , which start and spring up from incidental causes . If my pru- dence could not penetrate into , or foretel them , I am not ...
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... nature " for that very thing only . " Were I to choose for myself , there is no fashion so good that I would care to be so wedded to , as not to have it in my power to disengage myself from it . Life is a motion uneven , irregular , and ...
... nature " for that very thing only . " Were I to choose for myself , there is no fashion so good that I would care to be so wedded to , as not to have it in my power to disengage myself from it . Life is a motion uneven , irregular , and ...
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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.