The Essays of Michael de Montaigne, Zväzok 3W. Miller, 1811 |
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... Italy , of which Florus treats , lib . iii . cap . 17 and 18. As to what Montaigne says here of Livius Drusus , he took it from a treatise of Plutarch , entitled Instructions to those who manage the Affairs of State , ch . 4 , where ...
... Italy , of which Florus treats , lib . iii . cap . 17 and 18. As to what Montaigne says here of Livius Drusus , he took it from a treatise of Plutarch , entitled Instructions to those who manage the Affairs of State , ch . 4 , where ...
Strana 98
... Italy I said whatever I had a mind to in common discourse ; but in serious subjects I did not dare to trust to an idiom , which I could not turn and wind out of its com- mon path . I was for introducing something of my own . Men of wit ...
... Italy I said whatever I had a mind to in common discourse ; but in serious subjects I did not dare to trust to an idiom , which I could not turn and wind out of its com- mon path . I was for introducing something of my own . Men of wit ...
Strana 102
... Italians , viz . Cappari ; and Py- thagorast by water and air . I am so apt , without thinking of it , to receive these superficial impressions , that if I had in my youth sire or highness three days together , I would repeat them a ...
... Italians , viz . Cappari ; and Py- thagorast by water and air . I am so apt , without thinking of it , to receive these superficial impressions , that if I had in my youth sire or highness three days together , I would repeat them a ...
Strana 108
... Italians the more respectful and timorous , the more coy and secret it is , the better it pleases me . I know not which of lians ; the the ancients it was who wished his weasand as long pectful and as the neck of a crane , † that he ...
... Italians the more respectful and timorous , the more coy and secret it is , the better it pleases me . I know not which of lians ; the the ancients it was who wished his weasand as long pectful and as the neck of a crane , † that he ...
Strana 110
... Italy they passionately court , and even fall into raptures of devotion to the very women who prostitute themselves for money ; and justify their conduct by pleading that there are degrees of fruition , and that they pay them so much ...
... Italy they passionately court , and even fall into raptures of devotion to the very women who prostitute themselves for money ; and justify their conduct by pleading that there are degrees of fruition , and that they pay them so much ...
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Strana 35 - I pass away most of the Days of my Life, and most of the Hours of the Day.
Strana 300 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 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?
Strana 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.
Strana 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.