"Characters" of
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共 37 段- In 1691 he endeavoured to be elected a member of the French
- (30.) What a prodigious difference is there between a fine w
- (61.) There are some artists[115] or men of ability whose in
- (39.) Celsus[148] is not of a very high birth, but he is all
- (45.) A woman is easily managed if a man will only give hims
- (29.) Methinks that if an unjust, eccentric, and groundless
- (13.) Troïlus is useful to those who have too much wealth; h
- (69.) Some city ladies are so refined that they do not know
- (28.) Let Ergastus alone, and he will demand a duty from all
- (80.) We cannot avoid observing the strokes of fate or the f
- (21.) In town, people are brought up in complete ignorance o
- (43.) A man intrigues to obtain an eminent post, lays all hi
- (80.) I would say that a man who tries to be witty must have
- (31.) I cannot imagine in what a great man is happier than o
- (10.) They who sit peaceably by their own firesides among th
- A gorgeous and sumptuous monarch is like a shepherd adorned
- “what can he be doing? what has become of him? Let him never
- (71.) You say, “Men must be modest;” that is what all intell
- (121.) Gnathon[571] lives for no one but himself, and the re
- (11.) If men were not more like bears and panthers than men,
- (57.) Shall I call a man sensible who only practises one art
- (103.) Most men are so oblivious of their souls, and act and
- But when he adds that books are more instructive than travel
- Moreover, those women who improve and thrive under the shelt
- (37.) For some time a certain method has been in use for mak
- (72.) The study of the original texts can never be sufficien
- (23.) A man starts up on a sudden, and without any previous
- (26.) Two sorts of men flourish in courts and reign there by
- Behold, then, the earth on which we tread, suspended like a
- [22] The Abbé Claude Fleury, the learned author of the _Hist
- [125] Desiderius Erasmus (1467-1536), one of the most celebr
- [244] Artaxerxes Longimanus, king of Persia, succeeded his f
- [368] M. de Terrat, the _chancelier_ of Monsieur, the brothe
- [488] During the reign of Louis XIV., the signboards, which
- [603] This is an allusion to Quinault (see page 28, note 2),
- “Il attirait les yeux de lʼassemblée entière
- [831] The chapter “Of the Pulpit” was first published in 168