The Essayes of Michael, Lord of Montaigne, Volumen2J.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1921 |
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Página 201 - Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
Página 46 - ... conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.
Página 139 - ... and service ? Is it possible to imagine anything so ridiculous as this miserable and wretched creature, which is not so much as master of himselfe, exposed and subject to offences of all things, and yet dareth call himselfe Master and Emperour of this Universe ? In whose power it is not to know the least part of it, much lesse to command the same.
Página 323 - In few, there is no constant existence, neither of our being, nor of the objects. And we, and our judgement, and all mortall things else do uncessantly rowle, turne, and passe away. Thus can nothing be certainely established, nor of the one, nor of the other ; both the judgeing and the judged being in continuall alteration and motion.
Página 93 - I cannot so well expresse, either through unskill of language or want of judgement. I number not my borrowings, but I weigh them. And if I would have made their number to prevail, I would have had twice as many.
Página 187 - Fluctibus e tantis vitam tantisque tenebris, In tarn tranquillo et tarn clara luce locavit.
Página 138 - Philosophy ; when it so often telleth us, that all our issisdome is but folly before God; that of all vanities, man is the greatest; that man, who presumeth of his knowledge, doth not yet know what knowledge is : and that man, who is nothing, if he but thinke to be something, seduceth and deceiveth himself e?
Página 323 - Thus, seeing all things are subject to passe from one change to another ; reason, which therein seeketh a reall subsistence, findes her selfe deceived as unable to apprehend any thing subsistent and permanent : forsomuch as each thing either commeth to a being, and is not yet altogether ; or beginneth to dy before it be borne.
Página 355 - Wee have taught Ladies to blush, onely by hearing that named, which they nothing feare to doe. Wee dare not call our members by their proper names, and feare not to employ them in all kind of dissolutenesse. Ceremonie forbids us by words to expresse lawfull and naturall things ; and we beleeve it. Reason willeth us to doe no bad or unlawfull things, and no man giveth credit unto it. Here I find my selfe entangled in the lawes of Ceremonie, for it neither allowes a man to speake ill or good of himselfe....