The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English, Volume 3J. Pote, E. Ballard, C. Bathurst [and 11 others], 1776 - 926 pagine |
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Pagina 22
... difcourfe is com- mon , and who but feldom writes ; that is to fay , whose capacity is borrowed , and not his own ? A man of learn- ing is not learned in every thing ; but the felf - fufficient man is fufficient in every thing , even in ...
... difcourfe is com- mon , and who but feldom writes ; that is to fay , whose capacity is borrowed , and not his own ? A man of learn- ing is not learned in every thing ; but the felf - fufficient man is fufficient in every thing , even in ...
Pagina 41
... difcourfe with his neighbour about his building , hunting , or quarrel , and that takes pleasure in chatting with a carpenter , or a gar- dener . I envy those who can condefcend to a familiari- ty with the meaneft of their fervants ...
... difcourfe with his neighbour about his building , hunting , or quarrel , and that takes pleasure in chatting with a carpenter , or a gar- dener . I envy those who can condefcend to a familiari- ty with the meaneft of their fervants ...
Pagina 45
... difcourfe , all fubjects are alike to me . I care not whether there be weight or depth in it . There is ftill a grace and pertinence in it . The whole is tinctured with a judgment mature and fteddy , and mixed with good nature ...
... difcourfe , all fubjects are alike to me . I care not whether there be weight or depth in it . There is ftill a grace and pertinence in it . The whole is tinctured with a judgment mature and fteddy , and mixed with good nature ...
Pagina 76
... difcourfe ? We boldly pronounce the words " kill , rob , betray , " but the other we dare not mention fo as to be heard . Does it mean that the lefs we exhale of the fact in speech , we have the more authority to fwell it in thought ...
... difcourfe ? We boldly pronounce the words " kill , rob , betray , " but the other we dare not mention fo as to be heard . Does it mean that the lefs we exhale of the fact in speech , we have the more authority to fwell it in thought ...
Pagina 112
... difcourfe ; but in ferious fubjects I did not dare to truft to an idiom , which I could not turn and wind out of its common path . I was for introducing fomething of my own . Seneca , epift . 33. + Quintilian , lib . x . In the Life of ...
... difcourfe ; but in ferious fubjects I did not dare to truft to an idiom , which I could not turn and wind out of its common path . I was for introducing fomething of my own . Seneca , epift . 33. + Quintilian , lib . x . In the Life of ...
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Brani popolari
Pagina 250 - Tis the supreme quality of a woman, which a man ought to seek before any other, as the only dowry that must ruin or preserve our houses. Let men say what they will, according to the experience I have learned, I require in married women the economical virtue above all other virtues...
Pagina 201 - ... reason. Those who have a lively imagination are a great deal more pleased with themselves than the wise can reasonably be. They look down upon men with haughtiness; they argue with boldness and confidence, others with fear and diffidence; and this gaiety of countenance often gives them the advantage in the opinion of the hearers, such favour have the imaginary wise in the eyes of judges of like nature.
Pagina 224 - The great and tedious debates," says a sensible French writer of the old political school, " about the best form of society, are only proper for the exercise of wit ; and have their being only in agitation and controversy. A new form of government might be of some value in a new world ; but ours is a world ready made to our hands, and in which each distinct form is blended by custom. We do not, like Pyrrho and Cadmus, make the world ; and by whatever authority it is we assert the privilege of setting...
Pagina 294 - is a friend to all men." The principal charge we have is, to every one to take care of himself: and it is for this that we here live.
Pagina 326 - How much more natural and likely do I find it that two men should lie than that one man in twelve hours' time should fly with the wind from east to west ? How much more natural that our understanding should be carried from its place by the volubility of our disordered minds, than that one of us should be carried by a strange spirit upon a...