 I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare: and I dare a little the more, as I grow older; for methinks custom allows to age more liberty of prating, and more indiscretion of talking of a man's self.  Essays - Side 662av Michel de Montaigne - 1800Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1895 - 748 sider
...virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice. Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much u I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older. He who should teach men to die would at the... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 396 sider
...nothing but fidelity to the work ; and that is there, and the most pure and sincere that is anywhere to be found. I speak truth, not so much as I would,...and more indiscretion of talking of a man's self. . . . My book and I go hand in hand together. Elsewhere men may commend or censure the work, without... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 sider
...Honesty. Like rowers, who advance backward.8 ibid. I speak truth, not so mnch as I would, but as mnch as I dare ; and I dare a little the more as I grow older. Chap ii. Of Eepentance. 1 XEXOPHON : Mem. Socratit, i. 3, 1. s Sec Bentley, page 284. * SENECA : Epistle... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1186 sider
...lie and massacre. Boot Hi. Chap. i. Of Profit and Honesty. Like rowers, who advance backward.* ibid. I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much...dare ; and I dare a little the more as I grow older. Chap ii. Of Rt ptntance. 1 XENOPHON : Mem. Socratis, i. 3, 1. * Sec Bentley, page 284. * SENECA : Epistle... | |
 | 1917 - 558 sider
..."hiographies" are uniformly landatory, they do give interesting pictures of aorne very interesting men! 20 " I speak Truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and dare a little more as I grow older," Felicitations Felix Shay There Is No Peace! old idea of " conversion... | |
 | James Montgomery Beck - 1920 - 184 sider
...MIGHT HAVE BEEN" 95 CHAPTER IV THE APOSTLE or THE NEW FREEDOM .... 136 THE PASSING OF THE NEW FREEDOM 'I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much...dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older." — MONTAIGNE. THE PASSING 6F/FHE NEW FREEDOivfe'V. '"••** .• CHAPTER I '->'.>. •.* • •... | |
 | Leopold James Maxse - 1920 - 104 sider
...REVIEW FOUR LECTURES DELIVERED AT CAXTON HALL, WESTMINSTER, IN THE FIRST FORTNIGHT OF FEBRUARY 1920 " I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much aB I dare ; and I dare a little the more as I grow older " MONTAIGNE LONDON THE NATIONAL REVIEW OFFICE... | |
 | Thomas Lansing Masson - 1923 - 466 sider
...want to. Ask and you will receive. It lies in the initial desire. "I speak truth," said Montaigne, "not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little thus more as I grow older." If we could dip down into our inner selves and pull out a gauge that would... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 494 sider
...dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. — JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much...dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older. — MONTAIGNE. There is nothing so powerful as truth — and often nothing so strange. — DANIEL WEBSTER.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1972 - 488 sider
...throughout 25 years of service to a grotesque machinery that brought me nothing. And as Montaigne, "I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare ; and I dare more as I grow older." I cheered when Spiro Agnew castigated his "corps of effete snobs," not from... | |
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