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Page vi
... mind alike are trained and perfected . This scheme has never been surpassed , nor will it ever be even equalled until professors of education recognise some of the conditions of success , as taught by Rabelais . Thus , first of all ...
... mind alike are trained and perfected . This scheme has never been surpassed , nor will it ever be even equalled until professors of education recognise some of the conditions of success , as taught by Rabelais . Thus , first of all ...
Page x
... mind . On this subject I have said what I had to say elsewhere . Buffoon or not , this man , who belonged to the fifteenth as well as the sixteenth century , had things to say and lessons to teach which concern humanity in all ages ...
... mind . On this subject I have said what I had to say elsewhere . Buffoon or not , this man , who belonged to the fifteenth as well as the sixteenth century , had things to say and lessons to teach which concern humanity in all ages ...
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... ever pick the lock of a bottle ? Call to mind the countenance which then you had . Or , did you ever see a dog when he met with a marrow - bone ? He is the beast of all others in the world ( says Plato , GARGANTUA . 3.
... ever pick the lock of a bottle ? Call to mind the countenance which then you had . Or , did you ever see a dog when he met with a marrow - bone ? He is the beast of all others in the world ( says Plato , GARGANTUA . 3.
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... mind was in the kitchen . Then he sat down at table ; and , because he was naturally phlegmatic , he began his meal with some dozens of hams , dried neats ' tongues , mullet's roe , chitterlings , and such other forerunners of wine . In ...
... mind was in the kitchen . Then he sat down at table ; and , because he was naturally phlegmatic , he began his meal with some dozens of hams , dried neats ' tongues , mullet's roe , chitterlings , and such other forerunners of wine . In ...
Page 21
... minds . All their play was but in liberty , for they left off when they pleased , and that was commonly when they did sweat , or were otherwise weary . Then were they very well dried and rubbed , shifted their shirts , and walking ...
... minds . All their play was but in liberty , for they left off when they pleased , and that was commonly when they did sweat , or were otherwise weary . Then were they very well dried and rubbed , shifted their shirts , and walking ...
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Page 21 - ... they had done their minds. All their play was but in liberty, for they left off when they pleased, and that was commonly when they did sweat over all their body, or were otherwise weary. Then were they very well wiped and rubbed, shifted their shirts, and walking soberly, went to see if dinner was ready.
Page 69 - ... the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us. By this liberty they entered into a very laudable emulation, to do all of them what they saw did please one. If any of the gallants or ladies should say, Let us drink, they would all drink. If any one of them said, Let us play, they all played.
Page 59 - ... said Gargantua, the greatest loss of time that I know is to count the hours. What good comes of it? Nor can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment and discretion.
Page 29 - They went likewise to see the drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance ; how the lapidaries did work, as also the goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones.