 ... reward : whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting corn, or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought : no matter, how often defeated, you are born to...  Essays: Second Series - Page 309by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1743 - 572 pages
...fo important an Enterprize. Reflefafli, feciffe merces eft : OJficii frufins ipfum Qfficium eft* . The Reward of a Thing well done is to have done it : The Fruit of a good Office is the Office itfelf. It were, perhaps, excufable in a Painter or any... | |
 | 1746 - 306 pages
...every important enterprize : Re fee fafti fecijji merces eft : Officii fructus ipfum hfficium ejl. " The reward of a thing " well done, is to have done it : The fruit of a '' good oflice, is the oflice itfelf." Tliofe that by other methods featter their... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1759 - 684 pages
...important an Enterprife. s Refle fa£li, feciffe merces (ft : Officii fruffus, ipfum cfficium eft. The Reward of a Thing well done is to have done it : The Fruit of a good Office is the Office itfelf. It were, peradventure, excufable in a Painter, or... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1776 - 654 pages
...fo important an enterprize. -f ReEle faEii, fect/e merces efl: officiifrufttts, ipfum officium eft; "the " reward of a thing well done is to have done it: the fruic " of a good office is the office itfelf." It were, perhaps, excufable in a painter, or any... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1811 - 562 pages
...important an enterprise. Rccte facti, fecisse merces est : officiifructus, i/tsuiii officiitm rsl :t " The reward of a thing well done is to have done '* it : the fruit of a good office is the oflice itself." * ^Eneid. lib. v. ver. 302. f Senec. ep. 81 . It... | |
 | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - 1842 - 792 pages
...important an enterprise : Itecte facli fecisse mercex cat : tiffirii fructus ipsum officium est.1 " The reward of a thing well done is to have done it : the fruit of a good office is the office itself." It were, perhaps, excusable in a painter or other... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1849 - 698 pages
...so important an enterprise : Recle facti fecisse merces est: qfficii fruclus ipsum tifficium est.1 "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it: the fruit of a good office is the office itself." It were, perhaps, excusable in a painter or other... | |
 | 1863 - 844 pages
...spurs." If our heart is faint and our will weak, we should study the maxims that inspire, — as, " The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." The instructive maxim opens a vista of truth to the intellect, as when Goethe said, " A man need not... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt - 1859 - 542 pages
...so important an enterprise : Recte facti fecisse mercet est ; officiifructut ipsum offichtm est.1 " The reward of a thing well done is to have done it ; the fruit of a good office is the office itself." It were, perhaps, excusable in a painter or other... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1870 - 700 pages
...an enterprize. " Recte facti, fecisse merces est: officii fructus ipsum officium est."—Seneca. " The reward of a thing well done is to have done it: the fruit of a good office, is the office it self." It were peradventure excusable in a painter, or... | |
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