The Works of Michel de Montaigne: Essays of Montaigne, tr. by C. Cotton; rev. by W.C. Haxlett [!]- v. 10. Life and letters of Montaigne, with notes and index, rev. by W. C. Haxlett [!

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Strana 175 - 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.
Strana 122 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened, Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Strana 55 - For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Strana 192 - ... arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are formed and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their cubs into form...
Strana 243 - ... by one sentence, but running from judge to judge, and court to court, to decide one and the same cause.
Strana 28 - The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience: it was a commandment...
Strana 232 - NOT to admire, is all the art I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.
Strana 46 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Strana 281 - Denique ut in fabrica, si prava est regula prima Normaque si fallax rectis regionibus exit, Et libella aliqua si ex parti claudicat...

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