You can also read the full text online using our ereader. Selflove is the love of a mans own self, and of every thing else, for his own sake. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Maxims and reflections download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Other articles where maxims and moral reflections is discussed. If we had no faults ourselves, we should not take such pleasure in observing those of others. How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befallen us, but not to recollect how many times we have recounted to the same person. Moral reflections, sentences and maxims wikisource, the.
Translated from the editions of 1678 and 1827 with introduction, notes, and some account of the author and his times by j. The view of human conduct his writings describe has been summed up by the words everything is reducible to the motive of selfinterest, though the term gently cynical has also been applied. As would plainly appear, if fortune did but furnish them with power and opportunities of shewing it. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want.
He is a man for our own impatient, distracted times. Collected maxims and other reflections, 2008, 400 pages, fran. Excellent translation into english and expertly organized material. Its called amourpropre, for which selflove is only a glib translation. An illustration of a computer application window wayback machine an illustration of an open book. New post fulltext search for articles, highlighting downloaded books, view pdf in a browser and download history correction in our blog. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides. Or, sentences and moral maxims our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. A translation of reflections, or sentences and moral maxims.
Holland the translators preface the preface to the reader. A table of alternative maxim numbers and an index of topics help the reader to locate any maxim quickly. He served in the army against the spaniards in italy in 1629, in the netherlands and picardy in 163536, and again in flanders in 1639. In england, john dryden, alexander pope, and jonathan swift produced some of the most memorable epigrams of their time. Translated from the editions of 1678 and 1827 with introduction, notes, and some account of the author and his times. Collected maxims and other reflections, 2008, 400 pages. Download pdf collected maxims and other reflections book full free.
Linguistique, stylistique et traductologie presentee et soutenue par. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. This early english translation of the pillar of french. Pdf collected maxims and other reflections download full. Worthy of study at any time, the maxims are especially.
Blackmore, and francine giguere, of oxford worlds classics, published in 2008. Oct 01, 2005 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire. Click download or read online button to get maxims and reflections book now. It never rests, or fixes any where from home, and, if for a little while it dwell upon some other thing, tis only as bees. Collected maxims and other reflections available for download and read online in other formats.
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