Essays [tr. by CottonHurd and Houghton, 1866 |
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according advantage affairs amongst ancient Aristotle arms army battle better betwixt body Cæsar CHAPTER Cicero commanded contrary courage custom danger dead death Diogenes Laertius Dionysius the Elder discourse divine Duke Emperor Eneid enemy Epicurus Epist example fancy father favour fear fortune friends friendship give glory greatest hand Herod Herodotus honour Horace horse humour imagination Italy judge judgment King Laertius laws learning live Livy Lucretius Macedon manner Martin du Bellay means memory mind Montaigne Montaigne's nature never nihil opinion ourselves Ovid pain passions person philosopher Plato pleasure Pliny Plutarch Pompey present princes Quæs quod reason reputation Seneca Sextus Empiricus soever soldiers sort soul speak Suetonius suffer thing thou thought tion truth Tusc Valerius Maximus valour vice victory virtue Vitâ wherein whole withal women words Xenophon
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60 ページ - O'er my dim eyes a darkness hung ; My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd ; My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd ; My feeble pulse forgot to play ; I fainted, sunk, and died away.
385 ページ - Who then is free ? The wise, who well maintains An empire o'er himself: whom neither chains, Nor want, nor death, with slavish fear inspire; Who boldly answers to his warm desire ; Who can ambition's vainest gifts despise; Firm in himself who on himself relies ; Polish'd and round who runs his proper course, And breaks misfortune with superior force.
234 ページ - After having taught him what will make him more wise and good, you may then entertain him with the elements of logic, physics, geometry, rhetoric, and the science which he shall then himself most incline to, his judgment being beforehand formed and fit to choose, he will quickly make his own. The way of instructing him ought to be sometimes by discourse, and sometimes by reading; sometimes his governor shall put the author himself, which he shall think most proper for him., into his hands, and sometimes...
220 ページ - ... and meaning of them ; and let him judge of the profit he has made, not by the testimony of his memory, but by that of his understanding. Let him make him put what he hath learned into a hundred several forms, [and accommodate it to so many several subjects, to see if he yet rightly comprehend it, and have made it his own, taking instruction by his progress from the Institutions of Plato.
161 ページ - For, in truth, custom is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She, by little and little, slily and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority, but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.
294 ページ - As, indeed, we have no other level of truth and reason, than the example and idea of the opinions and customs of the place wherein we live: there is always the perfect religion, there the perfect government, there the most exact and accomplished usage of all things. They are savages at the same rate that we say fruits are wild...
296 ページ - This is a nation, I should say to Plato, in which there is no sort of traffic, no knowledge of letters, no science of numbers, no name for a magistrate or for political superiority, no custom of servitude, no riches or poverty, no contracts, no successions, no partitions, no occupations but leisure ones, no care for any but common kinship, no clothes, no agriculture, no metal, no use of wine or wheat.
329 ページ - Estne novis nuptis odio Venus? anne parentum Frustrantur falsis gaudia lacrimulis, Ubertim thalami quas intra limina fundunt?
219 ページ - ... turn. Socrates, and since him Arcesilaus, made first their scholars speak and then they spoke to them. The authority of those who teach is very often an impediment to those who desire to learn.
139 ページ - Life in itself is neither good nor evil; it is the scene of good or evil, as you make it. And, if you have lived a day, you have seen all ; one day is equal and like to all other days. There is...