 | Michel de Montaigne - 1711 - 566 pages
...himfelf but a whole Kingdom, no bigger than the leaft Touch or Prick of a Pencil, in Comparifon ot the whole, that Man alone is able to value Things according to their .true Eftimate and Grandeur. This great World which fome do yet multiply as feveral Species under one Genus,... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1820 - 402 pages
...himself in that figure, and not himself but a yyhole kingdom, no bigger than the least touch or prick of a pencil, in comparison of the whole, that man...things according to their true estimate and grandeur." Our author's opinion, that a youth should be trained to suffer whatever there is a possibility of his... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...whoever in her face shall read so general and so constant a variety, whoever shall observe himself in that figure, and not himself but a whole kingdom, no bigger than the least touch or prick of a pencil, in. comparison of the whole, that man alone is able to value things according... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 406 pages
...whoever in her face shall read so general and so constant a variety, whoever shall observe himself in that figure, and not himself but a whole kingdom, no bigger than the least touch or prick of a pencil, in comparison of the whole, that man alone is able to value things according... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...so general and so constant a variety; whoever shall observe himsclf in that figure, and not himsclf but a whole kingdom, no bigger than the least touch...things according to their true estimate and grandeur. — Montaigne. 643. Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties. — Bacon's great attainments were not... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...whoever in her face shall read so general and so constant a variety, whoever shall observe himself in that figure, and not himself, but a whole kingdom, no bigger than tho least touch or prick of a pencil, in comparison of the whole, that man alone is able to value things... | |
 | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - 1842 - 792 pages
...whoever in her face shall read so general und во constant a variety, whoever shall observe himself in that figure, and not himself but a whole kingdom,...of a pencil, in comparison of the whole, that man of Greece, and that in thosewhich haveshort marginal lemmas of «hat is contained in the pages, we... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1849 - 698 pages
...whoever in her face shall read so general and so constant a variety, whoever shall observe himself in that figure, and not himself but a whole kingdom,...of a pencil, in comparison of the whole, that man 1 Phlo. Ifippial .Wajor. 1 И1 iun:h. in his Treatise on Falte Sknmf. 1 Tin* wat* M ontniirne'e friend,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...whoever ill her face shall read so general and so constant a variety ; whoever shall observe himself in that figure, and not himself, but a whole kingdom, no bigger than the least touch or prick of a pencil in comparison of the whole ; that man alone is able to value things according... | |
 | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - 1877 - 560 pages
...whoever in her face shall read so general and so constant a variety, whoever shall observe himself in that figure, and not himself but a whole kingdom, no bigger than the least touch or prick of a pencil in comparison of the whole, that man alone is able to value things according to... | |
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But whoever shall represent to his fancy, as in a picture, that great image of our mother nature, in her full majesty and lustre, whoever in her face shall read so general and so constant a variety, whoever shall observe himself in that figure, and not... 
