Montaigne's Essays: John Florio's Translation ; Edited by J. I. M. Stewart, Volume 2Nonesuch Press, 1928 - Ethics |
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... selfe in my liveliest reasons , in a forme most mine owne : A tender and young Negotiator , and who had rather faile in my businesse , then in my selfe . Yet hath this been hitherto with so good hap ( for surely fortune is in these ...
... selfe in my liveliest reasons , in a forme most mine owne : A tender and young Negotiator , and who had rather faile in my businesse , then in my selfe . Yet hath this been hitherto with so good hap ( for surely fortune is in these ...
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... selfe beholding unto fortune if she please to save it ; and for it's safety employ as much scope as my endevours can affoord me . Was it not Atticus , who cleaving to the right ( but loosing side ) saved himselfe by his moderation , in ...
... selfe beholding unto fortune if she please to save it ; and for it's safety employ as much scope as my endevours can affoord me . Was it not Atticus , who cleaving to the right ( but loosing side ) saved himselfe by his moderation , in ...
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... selfe am other , or that I apprehend subjects , by other circumstances and considera- tions . Howsoever , I may perhaps gaine - say my selfe , but truth ( as Demades said ) I never gaine - say : Were my mind setled , I would not essay ...
... selfe am other , or that I apprehend subjects , by other circumstances and considera- tions . Howsoever , I may perhaps gaine - say my selfe , but truth ( as Demades said ) I never gaine - say : Were my mind setled , I would not essay ...
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... selfe , I complaine , it thinkes no more of it selfe . But is it reason , that being so private in use , I should pretend to make my selfe publike in knowledge ? Or is it reason , I should pro- duce into the world , where fashion and ...
... selfe , I complaine , it thinkes no more of it selfe . But is it reason , that being so private in use , I should pretend to make my selfe publike in knowledge ? Or is it reason , I should pro- duce into the world , where fashion and ...
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... selfe , and that my conscience is con- tented with it selfe ; not of an Angels or a horses con- science , but as of a mans conscience . Adding ever this clause , not of ceremonie , but of true and essentiall sub- mission ; that I speake ...
... selfe , and that my conscience is con- tented with it selfe ; not of an Angels or a horses con- science , but as of a mans conscience . Adding ever this clause , not of ceremonie , but of true and essentiall sub- mission ; that I speake ...
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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.