Montaigne's Essays: John Florio's Translation ; Edited by J. I. M. Stewart, Volume 2Nonesuch Press, 1928 - Ethics |
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... opinions . I teach not ; I report : No vice is absolutely vice , which offendeth not , and a sound judge- ment accuseth ... opinion hath forged as false and erronious , if lawes and custome authorize the same . In like manner there is no ...
... opinions . I teach not ; I report : No vice is absolutely vice , which offendeth not , and a sound judge- ment accuseth ... opinion hath forged as false and erronious , if lawes and custome authorize the same . In like manner there is no ...
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... opinion is injurious . Whom trust you in seeing what is commendable ? God 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 ...
... opinion is injurious . Whom trust you in seeing what is commendable ? God 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 ...
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... opinions , reforme the vices of apparance ; those of essence they leave untouched if they encrease them not : And their encrease is much to be feared . We willingly protract al other well - doing upon these externall reformations , of ...
... opinions , reforme the vices of apparance ; those of essence they leave untouched if they encrease them not : And their encrease is much to be feared . We willingly protract al other well - doing upon these externall reformations , of ...
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... opinion ) I managed them in order . This is all my resist- ance is able to performe . I flatter not my selfe in like circumstances , I should ever be the same . It is not a spot , but a whole dye that staynes mee . I acknowledge no ...
... opinion ) I managed them in order . This is all my resist- ance is able to performe . I flatter not my selfe in like circumstances , I should ever be the same . It is not a spot , but a whole dye that staynes mee . I acknowledge no ...
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... opinions , other mens I esteeme as little : Fortune payes mee accordingly . If I take no counsell I give as little . I am not much sought after for it , and lesse credited when I give it : Neither know I any enter- prise , either ...
... opinions , other mens I esteeme as little : Fortune payes mee accordingly . If I take no counsell I give as little . I am not much sought after for it , and lesse credited when I give it : Neither know I any enter- prise , either ...
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Page 402 - The largest slice of this huge provision is, as a matter of course, given to the tyrannous demands of fiction. But in carrying out the scheme, publishers and editors contrived to keep in mind that books, like men and women, have their elective affinities. The present volume, for instance, will be found to have its companion books, both in the same section and just as significantly in other sections.
Page 403 - Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again!
Page 402 - The Spectator and learn how Cleomira dances, when the elegance of her motion is unimaginable and ' her eyes are chastised with the simplicity and innocence of her thoughts.
Page 402 - ... significantly in other sections. With that idea too, novels like Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and Fortunes of Nigel, Lytton's Harold and Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, have been used as pioneers of history and treated as a sort of holiday history books. For in our day history is tending to grow more documentary and less literary; and "the historian who is a stylist," as one of our contributors, the late Thomas Seccombe, said, "will soon be regarded as a kind of Phoenix.
Page 70 - ... dixerat et niveis hinc atque hinc diva lacertis cunctantem amplexu molli fovet. ille repente accepit solitam flammam, notusque medullas intravit calor et labefacta per ossa cucurrit, 390 non secus atque olim tonitru cum rupta corusco ignea rima micans percurrit lumine nimbos.
Page 38 - ... huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres quodcumque ageret...
Page 119 - In amore haec omnia insunt vitia : injuriae, ôO.suspiciones, inimicitiae, indutiae, bellum, pax rursum : incerta haec si tu postules ratione certa facere, nihilo plus agas quam si des operam ut cum ratione insanias.
Page 173 - In quibus videndum est non modo quid quisque loquatur, sed etiam quid quisque sentiat atque etiam qua de causa quisque sentiat.