Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters, with Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, Etc, Zväzok 2

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Hurd and Houghton, 1875

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Strana 200 - 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 362 - ... glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and good will to men.
Strana 155 - Tis one and the same nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things, might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past I have 1 JuTenal.
Strana 243 - Man is certainly stark mad ; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. Hear Trismegistus in praise of our sufficiency : " Of all the wonderful things, it surmounts all wonder that man could find out the divine nature and make it...
Strana 81 - I must shelter my own weakness under these great reputations. 1 shall love any one that can unplume me, that is, by clearness of understanding and judgment, and by the sole distinction of the force and beauty of...
Strana 140 - ... of understanding, to arrive at the natural sufficiency of beasts; so that their brutish stupidity surpasses in all conveniences all that our divine intelligence can do. Really, at this rate, we might with great reason call her an unjust stepmother: but it is nothing so: our polity is not so irregular and deformed.
Strana 15 - Good unexpected, evils unforeseen, Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene. Some, raised aloft, come tumbling down amain ; Then fall so hard, they bound and rise again.
Strana 88 - I have spent an hour in reading him, which is a great deal for me, and try to recollect what I have thence extracted of juice and substance, for the most part I find nothing but wind; for he is not yet come to the arguments that serve...
Strana 371 - 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.
Strana 367 - 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...

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