 I have here made only a nosegay of culled (Eastern) flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the string that ties them.  Cosmogenesis - Page xviiide Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1917Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 pages
...than myself. 2bid. Men are most apt to believe what they least understand. /Wrf. I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together. Chap. mi. Of Physiognomy. Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad... | |
 | Samuel L. Goldenberg - 1904 - 92 pages
.../904 G•OLLIOI COPYRIGHTED, 1904, BY SAMUEL L. GOLUENBERG. BARBARA UTTMANN, AD 1561. "I have here only a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together." — Montaigne. |HE task of the author of this work has not been an... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 pages
...learning to misquote. — Byron. Fine words! I wonder where you stole them. — Swift. I have only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together. — Montaigne. THE BUSINESS OF A COLLEGE PRESIDENT. By CHARLES F. THWING,... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1908 - 426 pages
...Lucretius, ii. 74. > Ovid, Fasti, i. 380. >dle ; as some one may say of me, that I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them. In earnest, I have so far yielded to the public opinion, that those borrowed... | |
 | Elizabeth Etta Smith Enz - 1911 - 392 pages
...of "similia," and not at the outset become lost in the seemingly undefined. 227853 "I have only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together." — Montaigne. I therefore recommend this work to the just and friendly... | |
 | 1917 - 542 pages
...the author frankly and humbly disavows all claim to originality and quotes Montaigne: "I have here only a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together." The book is set forth "with the devout and humble prayer that, by... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Brown - 1917 - 200 pages
...fragmentary extracts into a continuous history. I can but say with Montaigne, "I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together." MEB ST. CLOUD CHURCH CHAPTER I. Nestled among quiet hills, and yet... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1919 - 434 pages
...Secret Doctrine (Vol. I, p. xlvi) from Montaigne: " I have here made only a nosegay of culled [Eastern] flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the string that ties them." Is any one of my helpers prepared to say that I have not paid the full price for the string? April... | |
 | Harvard University. Class of 1895 - 1920 - 942 pages
...Degree: AB, 1895. Occupation: Author. Address: 385 Pleasant Ave., St. Paul, Minn. HAVE here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties together." Chapter I (which concerns a youth who was put in jail, a new road, Pat... | |
 | Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley - 1921 - 102 pages
...humble that at the outset of her colossal work The Secret Doctrine she writes (paraphrasing Montaigne), "I have here made only a nosegay of culled flowers,...nothing of my own but the string that ties them." When she founded the Theosophical Society in 1875 in New York, she said to Mr. Judge that she was embarking... | |
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