The Spirit of Montaigne: Some Thoughts and Expressions Similar to Those in His Essays, Volume 114Grace Norton Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1908 - 233 pages |
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... found stated and repeated and echoed with a force that gives surer foot- 1 The Influence of Montaigne . 2 The omission of Pascal from this volume is due to the fact that he will form a large part of a volume in preparation . ing to the ...
... found stated and repeated and echoed with a force that gives surer foot- 1 The Influence of Montaigne . 2 The omission of Pascal from this volume is due to the fact that he will form a large part of a volume in preparation . ing to the ...
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... found my work extremely interesting . I hope its results may interest others ; but " quand personne ne me lira , ay je perdu mon temps , de m'estre entretenu tant d'heures oysives à des pensemens si utiles et ag- greables ? " CAMBRIDGE ...
... found my work extremely interesting . I hope its results may interest others ; but " quand personne ne me lira , ay je perdu mon temps , de m'estre entretenu tant d'heures oysives à des pensemens si utiles et ag- greables ? " CAMBRIDGE ...
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... found some Bacon in Montaigne : and R. G. told me you had observed the same , and were indeed collecting some in- stances ; I think , quotations from Seneca , so employed as to prove that Bacon had them from the Frenchman . . . I had ...
... found some Bacon in Montaigne : and R. G. told me you had observed the same , and were indeed collecting some in- stances ; I think , quotations from Seneca , so employed as to prove that Bacon had them from the Frenchman . . . I had ...
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... found this form of the story . Plato ( in the Theaetetus ) says only that Thales fell into a well because of his ( in Montaigne's phrase ) " contemplation de la voute celeste , " and that " the clever , witty Thracian hand - maid " made ...
... found this form of the story . Plato ( in the Theaetetus ) says only that Thales fell into a well because of his ( in Montaigne's phrase ) " contemplation de la voute celeste , " and that " the clever , witty Thracian hand - maid " made ...
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... found on the other side , yet these it either neglects and despises , or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects : in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination 1 the author- ity of its former conclusions may ...
... found on the other side , yet these it either neglects and despises , or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects : in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination 1 the author- ity of its former conclusions may ...
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Page 210 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew : The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 66 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 7 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 167 - J'eusse été près du Gange esclave des faux dieux , Chrétienne dans Paris , musulmane en ces lieux.
Page 210 - There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Page 211 - TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent.
Page 28 - ... and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
Page 96 - I feel not in myself those common antipathies that I can discover in others: those national repugnances do not touch me, nor do I behold with prejudice the French, Italian, Spaniard, or Dutch...
Page 215 - OLD things need not be therefore true,' O brother men, nor yet the new ; Ah ! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again ! The souls of now two thousand years, Have laid up here their toils and fears, And all the earnings of their pain, — Ah, yet consider it again...
Page 189 - Je ne conçois qu'une manière de voyager plus agréable que d'aller à cheval; c'est d'aller à pied. On part à son moment , on s'arrête à sa volonté , on fait tant et si peu d'exercice qu'on veut. On observe tout le pays ; on se détourne à droite , à gauche ; on examine tout ce qui nous flatte ; on s'arrête à tous les points de vue. Aperçois-je une rivière, je la eôtoie ; un bois touffu, je vais sous son ombre ; une grotte , je la visite ; une carrière , j'examine les minéraux.