 | Michel de Montaigne - 1743 - 442 pàgines
...there are feveral Subjects which have thenBeing in Agitation and Controversy, and have no Life but but there. Such an Idea of Government might be of fome Value in a new World ; but we take a World already made, and formed to certain Cuiloms. We do not beget it as Pyrrha, or Cadmus... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1759 - 512 pàgines
...Exercife of our Wits ; wrnment. which have their Being in Agitation and Controverfy, and have no Life but there. Such an Idea of Government might be of fome...and formed to certain Cuftoms. We do not beget it as -Pyrrba, or a Cadmus did theirs. By what Means foever we may claim the Privilege to fet it to rights,... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1801 - 436 pàgines
...proper for the exercife of wit ; and have their being only in agitation and controverfy. A new form of government might be of fome value in a new world ; but ours is a wortd ready made^ to our hands, and in which each diftinct form is ,blended by cuftom. We do not, like... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1811 - 556 pàgines
...agitation and controversy, and have no life but there. Such an idea of government might be of some value in a new world ; but ours is a world ready made to our hands, and formed to certain customs. We do not beget it as Pyrrha or Cadmus did theirs. By what means soever we may claim the privilege... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1824 - 378 pàgines
...; and have their being only in agitation and controversy. A new form of government might be of some value in a new world ; but ours is a world ready made to our hands, and in which each distinct form is blended by custom. We do not, like Fyrrho and Cadmus, make the world... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 pàgines
...wit; and have their being only in agitation and controversy. A new form of government might be of some value in a new world ; but ours is a world ready made to our hands, and in which each distinct form is blended by custom. We do not, like Pyrrho and Cadmus, make the world... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pàgines
...wit; and have their being only in agitation and controversy. A new form of government might be of some value in a new world: but ours is a world ready made to our hands, and in which each distinct form is blended by custom. We do not, like Pyrrho and Cadmus, make the world;... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 374 pàgines
...; and have their being only in agitation and controversy. A new form of government might be of some value in a new world ; but ours is a world ready made to our hands, and in which each distinct form is blended by custom. We do not, like Pyrrho and Cadmus, make the world... | |
 | 1856 - 372 pàgines
...; and have their being only in agitation and controversy. A new form of government might be of some value in a new world ; but ours is a world ready made to our hands, and in which each distinct form is blended by custom. We do not, like Pyrrho and Cadmus, make the world... | |
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The great and tedious debates," says a sensible French writer of the old political school, " about the best form of society, are only proper for the exercise of wit ; and have their being only in agitation and controversy. A new form of government might... 