The Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: Translated Into English ...S. and E. Ballard, J. Clarke, 1759 |
Términos y frases comunes
Æneid againſt alfo alſo amongſt Beauty becauſe befides beſt betwixt Body Caufe Cauſe chufe Cicero common Confcience contrary cou'd Cuftom Death Defire Difcourfe Diſeaſes eafy Epift excufe faid fame Favour feems feen felf ferve feveral fhall fhould filly fince firft firſt fome fometimes forafmuch Fortune fpeak Friendſhip ftill fuch fuffer fufficiently fure give greateſt himſelf Honour Houſe Humour Inftruction itſelf juft Juftice juſt King Laert laft laſt Laws leaft leaſt lefs live Love Mafter meaſure Mind moft Montaigne moſt muft muſt myſelf Nature neceffary Neceffity never nevertheleſs Number obferve Occafions Opinion ourſelves Ovid Paffion Perfon Philofopher Plato pleaſant pleaſe Pleaſure Plutarch prefent Purpoſe Reaſon reft ſay Senfe Socrates Soul ſpeak thefe themſelves theſe Things thofe thoſe thou thouſand tion troubleſome Underſtanding univerfal uſe Vice Virtue whofe Wife Wiſdom worfe World worſe wou'd
Pasajes populares
Página 377 - There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things; and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.
Página 162 - Before great Agamemnon reign'd, Reign'd kings as great as he, and brave, Whose huge ambition's now contain'd In the small compass of a grave: In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown : No bard had they to make all time their own.
Página 203 - ... 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.
Página 226 - 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...
Página 433 - Have you known how to compose your manners ? You have done a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose ? You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires. The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose...