EssaysA.L. Bart, 1800 |
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Strana 7
... wherein they are much deeper plung'd than men , with haste and vio- lence ; he caused him to be waked by the sound of some musical in- strument , and was never unprovided of a musician for that purpose . But as they who are impatient to ...
... wherein they are much deeper plung'd than men , with haste and vio- lence ; he caused him to be waked by the sound of some musical in- strument , and was never unprovided of a musician for that purpose . But as they who are impatient to ...
Strana 10
... wherein he confutes what Montaigne has alledg'd to prove that brutes are capable of thinking . Chanet in his treatise of the operations of the understanding , quotes Montaigne's essays , as a work wherein judgment had no share , because ...
... wherein he confutes what Montaigne has alledg'd to prove that brutes are capable of thinking . Chanet in his treatise of the operations of the understanding , quotes Montaigne's essays , as a work wherein judgment had no share , because ...
Strana 11
Michel de Montaigne. of his discourses , wherein from one matter he makes long digressions upon several others . No doubt but he thought that one might take the same liberty in his meditations , as is assumed in common conver- sations ...
Michel de Montaigne. of his discourses , wherein from one matter he makes long digressions upon several others . No doubt but he thought that one might take the same liberty in his meditations , as is assumed in common conver- sations ...
Strana 12
... wherein there is so much learning should be an ignorant fellow . Scaliger was a better judge and as this is not to be found in any one of his works , I think one may venture to say , that this calumny was contrived by some of his ...
... wherein there is so much learning should be an ignorant fellow . Scaliger was a better judge and as this is not to be found in any one of his works , I think one may venture to say , that this calumny was contrived by some of his ...
Strana 27
... wherein I also suffer more constraint than I conceive is very well becoming a man , especially of my profession : but he nourish'd this modest humour to such a degree of superstition , as to give express orders in his last will , that ...
... wherein I also suffer more constraint than I conceive is very well becoming a man , especially of my profession : but he nourish'd this modest humour to such a degree of superstition , as to give express orders in his last will , that ...
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according actions Æneid affairs amongst ancient Antisthenes Aristippus Aristotle arms authority battel beasts believe better betwixt body Cæsar call'd caus'd CHAP Chrysippus Cicero command condition contrary custom dæmon danger death Democritus discourse divine effect emperour enemy Epaminondas Epicurus Epig example expence extream eyes fancy fantastick father favour fear fortune friends Gaul give glory greater greatest hand Heraclitus honour horse human humour imagination judge judgment Julius Cæsar king knowledge laws learning liberty liv'd live Lycurgus Macedon manner master means mind Montaigne nature necessity never nihil opinion Ovid pain passion peradventure philosophers physician Plato pleasure Plutarch Pompey present princes publick quæ quam quod reason receiv'd reputation Rome Scythians shew Socrates soever sort soul speak things thou thought tion true truth understanding valour vertue vice wherein whilst withal words Xenophon
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Strana 414 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? has 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.
Strana 276 - Immunis aram si tetigit manus, Non sumptuosa blandior hostia Mollivit aversos Penates Farre pio et saliente mica.
Strana 139 - Not that fine speaking is not a very good and commendable quality; but not so excellent and so necessary as some would make it; and I am scandalized that our whole life should be spent in nothing else. I would first understand my own language, and that of my neighbours with whom most of my business and conversation lies.
Strana 108 - All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and goodness.
Strana 41 - We are not men, nor have other tie upon one another, but by our word. If we did but discover the horror and gravity of it, we should pursue it with fire and sword, and more justly than other crimes.
Strana 662 - I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare: and I dare a little the more, as I grow older; for methinks custom allows to age more liberty of prating, and more indiscretion of talking of a man's self.
Strana 303 - Still earlier, Rabelais cites him with due respect. Montaigne, in 1589, says: " We dunces had been lost, had not this book raised us out of the dirt. By this favor of his we dare now speak and write. The ladies are able to read to schoolmasters. 'Tis our breviary.
Strana 83 - ... pound them to a pulp, which they mix with their wine, and drink it; where the...
Strana 267 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Strana 64 - Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum : Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.