Montaigne's Essays: John Florio's Translation ; Edited by J. I. M. Stewart, Volume 2Nonesuch Press, 1928 - Ethics |
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... presents , to watch on what side the victory would light , and to apprehend the fittest occasion of reconcilement with the victors . It were a kind of treason to do so in our owne affaires and domesticall matters , wherein of necessity ...
... presents , to watch on what side the victory would light , and to apprehend the fittest occasion of reconcilement with the victors . It were a kind of treason to do so in our owne affaires and domesticall matters , wherein of necessity ...
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... present worthily bestirre themselves , in so even a fashion or pleas- ing a manner , that they are likely to continue on foote , whatsoever injurious alteration or fall , the heavens may prepare against us . I holde it onely fit for ...
... present worthily bestirre themselves , in so even a fashion or pleas- ing a manner , that they are likely to continue on foote , whatsoever injurious alteration or fall , the heavens may prepare against us . I holde it onely fit for ...
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... present . I may soone change , not onely fortune , but in- tention . It is a counter - roule of divers and variable acci- dents , and irresolute imaginations , and sometimes con- trary whether it be that my selfe am other , or that I ...
... present . I may soone change , not onely fortune , but in- tention . It is a counter - roule of divers and variable acci- dents , and irresolute imaginations , and sometimes con- trary whether it be that my selfe am other , or that I ...
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... present keepe close - lurking , to purchase credit when they shall be dead and absent . I had rather have lesse . And I cast not my selfe into the world , but for the portion I draw from it . That done , I quit it . The people attend on ...
... present keepe close - lurking , to purchase credit when they shall be dead and absent . I had rather have lesse . And I cast not my selfe into the world , but for the portion I draw from it . That done , I quit it . The people attend on ...
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... present that former concupiscence unto it , I feare it would be of lesse power to sustaine it than heretofore it hath beene . see in it , by it selfe no increase of judgement , nor accesse of brightnesse , what it now judgeth , it did ...
... present that former concupiscence unto it , I feare it would be of lesse power to sustaine it than heretofore it hath beene . see in it , by it selfe no increase of judgement , nor accesse of brightnesse , what it now judgeth , it did ...
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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.