Ethica; Or, Characteristics of Men, Manners & BooksSmith, 1860 - 404 من الصفحات |
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... lived was in truth one of action , not contemplation . The career of France for the last half - century , or more , had been one of foreign aggression . Naples and the Milanese still remained to tempt the ambition of kings , and the day ...
... lived was in truth one of action , not contemplation . The career of France for the last half - century , or more , had been one of foreign aggression . Naples and the Milanese still remained to tempt the ambition of kings , and the day ...
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... lived Montaigne played no very important part . His natural character rather disposed him to an easy neutrality . His morality , ethical and political , was of too phlegmatic a temper to subject him to immoderate engagements . He had no ...
... lived Montaigne played no very important part . His natural character rather disposed him to an easy neutrality . His morality , ethical and political , was of too phlegmatic a temper to subject him to immoderate engagements . He had no ...
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... lived Montaigne surrounded himself with doubts , and it is , perhaps , but a fair retaliation on him that his reputation should partake of the dubious cha- racter it does . On the very threshold of an inquiry into his tastes and ...
... lived Montaigne surrounded himself with doubts , and it is , perhaps , but a fair retaliation on him that his reputation should partake of the dubious cha- racter it does . On the very threshold of an inquiry into his tastes and ...
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... lived a hundred years earlier , he would have been a welcome guest , along with Ficino , at the villa at Fiesole ; or yet earlier still , he would have been among the most eager of those five thousand who day after day received their ...
... lived a hundred years earlier , he would have been a welcome guest , along with Ficino , at the villa at Fiesole ; or yet earlier still , he would have been among the most eager of those five thousand who day after day received their ...
الصفحة 41
... lived at a crisis when convictions of any kind were weak and unsettled . The 66 Que sçais - je ? " of his motto might well have been accepted as the general device of the age . Events were occurring around that might well have shaken a ...
... lived at a crisis when convictions of any kind were weak and unsettled . The 66 Que sçais - je ? " of his motto might well have been accepted as the general device of the age . Events were occurring around that might well have shaken a ...
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الصفحة 372 - His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power, The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.
الصفحة 98 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
الصفحة 371 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
الصفحة 98 - That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure...
الصفحة 391 - Nay, I will say more — flattered and encouraged by the Right Honourable Gentleman's panegyric on my talents, if ever I again engage in the compositions he alludes to, I may be tempted to an act of presumption — to attempt an improvement on one of Ben Jonson's best characters, the character of the Angry Boy in the Alchemist.
الصفحة 157 - Till at the last, his time for fury found, He shoots with sudden vengeance from the ground ; The prostrate vulgar passes o'er and spares, But with a lordly rage his hunters tears.
الصفحة 274 - Dubius is such a scrupulous good man ! Yes, you may catch him tripping if you can. He would not with a peremptory tone Assert the nose upon his face his own ; With hesitation admirably slow He humbly hopes, presumes, it may be so.
الصفحة 98 - I am sometimes ashamed to think that I could not secure myself from vice, but by retiring from the exercise of virtue, and begin to suspect that I was rather impelled by resentment, than led by devotion, into solitude.
الصفحة 384 - A breach has been made in the constitution — the battlements are dismantled — the citadel is open to the first invader — the walls totter — the constitution is not tenable. What remains then, but for us to stand foremost in the breach, to repair it, or perish in it...
الصفحة 96 - ... we do injuriously in thinking to taste better the pure evangelic manna, by seasoning our mouths with the tainted scraps and fragments of an unknown table ; and searching among the verminous and polluted rags dropped overworn from the toiling shoulders of time, with these deformedly to quilt and interlace the entire, the spotless, and undecaying robe of truth, the daughter not of time, but of Heaven, only bred up here below in Christian hearts, between two grave and holy nurses, the doctrine and...