 | Michel de Montaigne - 1965 - 914 ページ
...cYet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump. BThe most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common chuman Bpattern, cwith... | |
 | Martin Price - 1983 - 400 ページ
...there is no use our mounting on stilts, for with our stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump. 2 Earlier in the novel the "sealed, slumbering head" of a pharaoh has been used as an image of specious... | |
 | Hugo Friedrich - 1991 - 476 ページ
..."Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump"—which in the mouth of Goethe's Mephistopheles reads: In the end you are—what you are. Whether... | |
 | Robbie Kahn - 1998 - 474 ページ
..."Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump" (1973:136). But he is more concerned with the solitary trajectory of a human life from birth to death... | |
 | Dikka Berven - 1995 - 400 ページ
..."Et au plus eslevé throne du monde, si ne sommes assis que sus nostre cul" (ni. 13. 1096, c) ("And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump" [in. 13. 857, c]). In examining the problem of language in Montaigne, Michel Foucault has commented... | |
 | Jeffrey Jerome Cohen - 1996 - 331 ページ
...human ignorance, which is, in my opinion, the most certain fact in the school of the world. in, 13 On the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our rump. 111,13 Cognition, Miracles, and Monsters The relationship between the exemplum of cripples and... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 ページ
...inside. Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump. The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order,... | |
 | Sidonie Smith - 2001 - 318 ページ
...ohsened: "There is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump" (III: 1 3, "Of experience," 857). CHAPTER 1 Life Narrative: Definitions and Distinctions My life is... | |
 | Alan Levine - 2001 - 356 ページ
...passage: "there is no use mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump" (111. 13, [857]). 19. On the need for veneration of law, consider the debate between Madison in Federalist... | |
 | Dalia Judovitz - 2001 - 250 ページ
..."Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for on stilts we must still walk on our own legs. And on the loftiest throne in the world we are still sitting only on our own rump" (III, 13: 857). The wisdom of the Essays and their legacy to posterity will be that of a hybrid knowledge... | |
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... divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully. We seek other conditions because we do not understand the use of our own, and go outside of ourselves because we do not know what it is like inside. Yet there is no use our mounting on stilts, for... 
