 | Michel de Montaigne - 1811 - 562 pages
...honest " things should be most delightful." The mariner said thus to Neptune, in a great storm, " O God, " thou mayest save me if thou wilt, and, if thou wilt, " thou mayest destroy me ; but I will steer my rud" der true." I have seen, in my time, a thousand men of supple mongrel natures,... | |
 | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - 1842 - 792 pages
...the most delightful." The manner of old said to Neptune, in a great tempest: " О god, tliou inayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt, thou mayest...destroy me ; but, whether or no, I will steer my rudder true."2 I have seen, in my time, a thousand men of supple and ambiguous natures, and that no one doubted... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt - 1845 - 786 pages
...The mariner pf old said to Neptune, in a great tempest: " О god, thou mayest save me if thou will, and if thou wilt, thou mayest destroy me ; but, whether or no, I will steer my rudder true."2 I have seen, in my time, a thousand men of supple and ambiguous natures, and that no one doubted... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1849 - 698 pages
...things should be the ;> most delightful." The mariner of old said to I Neptune, in a great tempest: "O god, thou ) mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou...destroy me; but, whether or no, { I will steer my rudder true."2 I have seen, in my time, a thousand men of supple and ambiguous natures, and that no one doubted... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt - 1859 - 542 pages
...things should be the most delightful." The mariner of old said to Neptune, in a great tempest : " O god, thou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou...but, whether or no, I will steer my rudder true." 6 I have seen, in my time, a thousand men of supple and ambiguous natures, and that no one doubted... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1866 - 548 pages
...honest things should be the most delightful." The mariner of old said to Neptune, in a great tempest : " 0 god, thou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou...but, whether or no, I will steer my rudder true." 6 I have seen, in my time, a thousand men of supple and ambiguous natures, and that no one doubted... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1870 - 700 pages
...given to man, that honest things should be the most delightful." The mariner said thus to Neptune," O God, thou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayest destroy me ; but however I will steer my rudder true." I have seen a thousand men of ambiguous natures, and that no... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1875 - 546 pages
...delightful." The mariner of old said to Neptune, in a great tempest : " O god, thou mayest save me if thon wilt, and if thou wilt, thou mayest destroy me ; but, whether or no, I will steer my rudder true." * I have seen, in my time, a thousand men of supple and ambiguous natures, and that no one doubted... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1877 - 636 pages
...munus, ut honesta magis juvarent." 3 The mariner of old said thus to Neptune, in a great tempest : " 0 God, thou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt, thou mayest destroy me ; but, however, I will steer my rudder true.4 I have seen in my time a thousand men supple, mongrel, ambiguous,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1877 - 558 pages
...poor shipmaster discovered a sound theology when in the storm at sea he made his prayer to Neptune, " 0 God, thou mayest save me if thou wilt, and if thou wilt thou mayest destroy me ; but, however, I will steer my rudder true." Let me add one more example of the same good sense, in a story,... | |
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... public men and professional men, who will discuss questions of economic interest in a scientific spirit, without fear of criticism from any quarter, or by any authority. There is a grand motto for us in the prayer of the mariner of old when in a great... 
