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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... life that form the road along which civilization advances , are here 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 ...
... life that form the road along which civilization advances , are here 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 ...
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... life to be but a discipline or preparation to die , they must needs make men think that it is a terrible enemy , against whom there is no end of preparing . MONTAIGNE , Livre III , 12 . A voir les efforts que Seneque se donne pour se ...
... life to be but a discipline or preparation to die , they must needs make men think that it is a terrible enemy , against whom there is no end of preparing . MONTAIGNE , Livre III , 12 . A voir les efforts que Seneque se donne pour se ...
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... life is lib- erty , especially in certain selfe - pleasing and humorous mindes , which are so sensible of every restraint as they will goe neare to thinke their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles . Ib . ( Of Marriage and Single ...
... life is lib- erty , especially in certain selfe - pleasing and humorous mindes , which are so sensible of every restraint as they will goe neare to thinke their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles . Ib . ( Of Marriage and Single ...
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... life of pedantes hath been scorned upon theatres , as the ape of tyranny . MONTAIGNE , Livre I , 25 ( 24 ) . Ib . ( 1 , iii , 3 ) . Je me suis souvent despité en mon enfance , de voir és comedies italiennes tousjours un pedante pour ...
... life of pedantes hath been scorned upon theatres , as the ape of tyranny . MONTAIGNE , Livre I , 25 ( 24 ) . Ib . ( 1 , iii , 3 ) . Je me suis souvent despité en mon enfance , de voir és comedies italiennes tousjours un pedante pour ...
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... life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on . MONTAIGNE , Livre I , 26 ( 25 ) . Ib . ( 11 , xx , 8 ) . Nostre vie , disoit Pythagoras , retire à la grande et popu- leuse assemblée des jeux Olympiques . Les uns exercent ...
... life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on . MONTAIGNE , Livre I , 26 ( 25 ) . Ib . ( 11 , xx , 8 ) . Nostre vie , disoit Pythagoras , retire à la grande et popu- leuse assemblée des jeux Olympiques . Les uns exercent ...
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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.
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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.
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