Montaigne's Essays: John Florio's Translation ; Edited by J. I. M. Stewart, Volume 2Nonesuch Press, 1928 - Ethics |
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... keepe alive , that while I live , and when I die , I may be as I am Your Honors servant in true hart , IOHN FLORIO . TO THE RIGHT HO - norable Ladie Elizabeth Grey . Of Honorable TALBOT honor'd - farre , The forecast and the fortune ...
... keepe alive , that while I live , and when I die , I may be as I am Your Honors servant in true hart , IOHN FLORIO . TO THE RIGHT HO - norable Ladie Elizabeth Grey . Of Honorable TALBOT honor'd - farre , The forecast and the fortune ...
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... keepe my promise . For my part , when it hath sometimes unadvisedly over - runne my thought , yet have I made a conscience to disavowe the same . Other- wise wee should by degrees come to abolish all the right a third man taketh and may ...
... keepe my promise . For my part , when it hath sometimes unadvisedly over - runne my thought , yet have I made a conscience to disavowe the same . Other- wise wee should by degrees come to abolish all the right a third man taketh and may ...
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... keepe one pace . Else - where one may commend or con- demne the worke , without the workeman ; heere not : who toucheth one toucheth the other . He who shall judge of it without knowing him , shal wrong himself more then me , he that ...
... keepe one pace . Else - where one may commend or con- demne the worke , without the workeman ; heere not : who toucheth one toucheth the other . He who shall judge of it without knowing him , shal wrong himself more then me , he that ...
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... keepe me from being an honest man , according to the description I dayly see made of honour , each one by himselfe . Quæ fuerant vitia , mores sunt . What earst were vices are now growne fashions . Some of my friends , have sometimes ...
... keepe me from being an honest man , according to the description I dayly see made of honour , each one by himselfe . Quæ fuerant vitia , mores sunt . What earst were vices are now growne fashions . Some of my friends , have sometimes ...
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... keepe a due rule or formall decorum , that's the point . The next degree , is to be so in ones owne home , and in his ordinary actions , whereof we are to give accoumpt to no body : wherein is no study , nor art . And therefore Bias ...
... keepe a due rule or formall decorum , that's the point . The next degree , is to be so in ones owne home , and in his ordinary actions , whereof we are to give accoumpt to no body : wherein is no study , nor art . And therefore Bias ...
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