Montaigne's Essays: John Florio's Translation ; Edited by J. I. M. Stewart, Volume 2Nonesuch Press, 1928 - Ethics |
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... thou pleased the matter hath thrived so well ? yea ( said hee ) and I am glad of it , yet repent not the advise I gave . When any of my friends come to me for counsell , I bestow it francklie and clearelie , not ( as well - nigh all the ...
... thou pleased the matter hath thrived so well ? yea ( said hee ) and I am glad of it , yet repent not the advise I gave . When any of my friends come to me for counsell , I bestow it francklie and clearelie , not ( as well - nigh all the ...
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... is this pit ( quoth he to the souldiers that stood about him ) according to the true dis- cipline of war : And to Niger , who willed him to hold his head steddy , I wish thou wouldest stricke as steddily 54 Montaigne's Essayes.
... is this pit ( quoth he to the souldiers that stood about him ) according to the true dis- cipline of war : And to Niger , who willed him to hold his head steddy , I wish thou wouldest stricke as steddily 54 Montaigne's Essayes.
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... thou wouldest stricke as steddily . He guessed right ; for Nigers arme trembling , he had divers blowes at him before he could strike it off . This man seemeth to have fixed his thoughts surely and directly on the matter . He that dies ...
... thou wouldest stricke as steddily . He guessed right ; for Nigers arme trembling , he had divers blowes at him before he could strike it off . This man seemeth to have fixed his thoughts surely and directly on the matter . He that dies ...
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... dea , tu rerum naturam sola gubernus , Nec sine te quicquam dias in luminis oras Exoritur , neque fit lætum , nec amabile quicquam . LUCR . i . 22 . Goddesse , thou rul'st the nature of all things . 70 Montaigne's Essayes.
... dea , tu rerum naturam sola gubernus , Nec sine te quicquam dias in luminis oras Exoritur , neque fit lætum , nec amabile quicquam . LUCR . i . 22 . Goddesse , thou rul'st the nature of all things . 70 Montaigne's Essayes.
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... thou rul'st the nature of all things . Without thee nothing into this light springs . Nothing is lovely , nothing pleasures brings . I know not who could set Pallas and the Muses at oddes with Venus , and make them cold and slow in ...
... thou rul'st the nature of all things . Without thee nothing into this light springs . Nothing is lovely , nothing pleasures brings . I know not who could set Pallas and the Muses at oddes with Venus , and make them cold and slow in ...
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