The Essays of Michael de Montaigne, Zväzok 3W. Miller, 1811 |
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Strana 3
... custom indulges my age with more liberty of prating , as well as of indiscretion in talking of a man's self . That cannot fall out here , which I often observe elsewhere , that the work and the artificer contradict each other . Has a ...
... custom indulges my age with more liberty of prating , as well as of indiscretion in talking of a man's self . That cannot fall out here , which I often observe elsewhere , that the work and the artificer contradict each other . Has a ...
Strana 4
... custom . Nor is there any virtue the practice of which does is connect not give joy to a well - disposed mind . There is ed with a really an inconceivable joy in a man's own breast science . upon his doing good , and a generous boldness ...
... custom . Nor is there any virtue the practice of which does is connect not give joy to a well - disposed mind . There is ed with a really an inconceivable joy in a man's own breast science . upon his doing good , and a generous boldness ...
Strana 20
... customs . standing . For a man to keep himself tied and bound , by neces- under- sity , to one only course , is but bare existence , not living . Those are the most amiable tempers which are more variable and flexible . It was an ...
... customs . standing . For a man to keep himself tied and bound , by neces- under- sity , to one only course , is but bare existence , not living . Those are the most amiable tempers which are more variable and flexible . It was an ...
Strana 27
... ( O ! servile and troublesome custom ! ) Every one there governs himself in his own way , let who will speak his thoughts ; while I am mute in deep medi-し of the men worth tation , and shut up in MEN , WOMEN , AND BOOKS . 27.
... ( O ! servile and troublesome custom ! ) Every one there governs himself in his own way , let who will speak his thoughts ; while I am mute in deep medi-し of the men worth tation , and shut up in MEN , WOMEN , AND BOOKS . 27.
Strana 29
... custom , without contributing any thing of his own to it but words ; it is indeed providing for his safety , but in as scan- dalous a manner as he that abandons his honour , or his profit , or his pleasure , from fear of danger . For it ...
... custom , without contributing any thing of his own to it but words ; it is indeed providing for his safety , but in as scan- dalous a manner as he that abandons his honour , or his profit , or his pleasure , from fear of danger . For it ...
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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.