might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me: but 'tis to much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have it so. Most of my actions are guided by example, not choice. Essays of Montaigne - Page 293by Michel de Montaigne - 1902Full view - About this book
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...\. For Liberty to me is far more fweet, , Than all the Pleafures of the Nuptial Sheet.1. ' •'• Might I have had my own Will, I would not have married Wifdom herfelf, if fhe would have had me. But 'tis to much Purpofe t6 evade it, the common Cuf-' torn... | |
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| Great Britain - 1845 - 916 pages
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| Michel de Montaigne - 1849 - 698 pages
...proper for it: El mitii dulce magia resoluto vivere eolio.« "Por liberty ii far more sweet to me." Might I have 'had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me : but w.hv »Ion- . 'tis to much purpose to evade it, AK. ' the common custom and use of posed for it. life... | |
| Periodicals - 1850 - 762 pages
...obliged, at the age of thirty-three, to take to himself a wife. " Might I have my own will," says he, " I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me." This he wrote after a long and comparatively happy experience of matrimony. In selecting the magistrature... | |
| Periodicals - 1850 - 766 pages
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| J. D. Bell - Conduct of life - 1850 - 488 pages
...9* easy to make happy." Montaigne, it appears, did not marry to suit himself. "Might I," he says, " have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself." You have read of the troubles between Sir EL Bulwer and his lady ; and between Dickens and Lady Dickens.... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 808 pages
...to be celebrated in his chamber. At the age of thirtythree, he had been married. " But," he says, " might I have had my own will, I would not have married...Wisdom herself, if she would have had me : but 'tis not to much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have it BO. Most of my actions... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 838 pages
...to be celebrated in his chamber At the age of thirtythree, he had been married. " But," he wivs, " might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me: but 'tii not to much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have it so. Most of my... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 816 pages
...chamber. At the age of thirtythree, he had been married. " But," he says, " might I have had myvwn will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me: but 'tis not to much purpose to evade it, the common custom and use of life will have it BO. Most of my actions... | |
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