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ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazlitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1. Preface The Life of Montaigne The Letters of Montaigne ...
The most usual way of appeasing the indignation of such as we have any way offended, when we see them in possession of the power of revenge, and find that we absolutely lie at their mercy, is by su...
QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE THE ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE QUOTATIONS FROM THE FIVE VOLUMES With Five Etchings A child should not be brought up in his mother's lap A g...
CHAPTER XXVII OF FRIENDSHIP Having considered the proceedings of a painter that serves me, I had a mind to imitate his way.
ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1. Preface The Life of Montaigne The Letters of Montaigne ...
ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 5. XXV.
ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 19.
ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 8. XLVIII.
CHAPTER XXII OF CUSTOM, AND THAT WE SHOULD NOT EASILY CHANGE A LAW RECEIVED He seems to me to have had a right and true apprehension of the power of custom, who first invented the story of a coun...
ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 15.
CHAPTER XIII THE CEREMONY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES There is no subject so frivolous that does not merit a place in this rhapsody.
CHAPTER XIII OF JUDGING OF THE DEATH OF ANOTHER When we judge of another's assurance in death, which, without doubt, is the most remarkable action of human life, we are to take heed of one thing,...
ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 17.
CHAPTER XXXII DEFENCE OF SENECA AND PLUTARCH The familiarity I have with these two authors, and the assistance they have lent to my age and to my book, wholly compiled of what I have borrowed fr...
CHAPTER I OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS Such as make it their business to oversee human actions, do not find themselves in anything so much perplexed as to reconcile them and bring them into ...
CHAPTER VI OF COACHES It is very easy to verify, that great authors, when they write of causes, not only make use of those they think to be the true causes, but also of those they believe not to ...
CHAPTER I OF PROFIT AND HONESTY No man is free from speaking foolish things; but the worst on't is, when a man labours to play the fool: "Nae iste magno conatu magnas nugas dixerit."
ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 7. XXXIX.
CHAPTER XVIII OF GIVING THE LIE Well, but some one will say to me, this design of making a man's self the subject of his writing, were indeed excusable in rare and famous men, who by their reputa...
CHAPTER VII OF RECOMPENSES OF HONOUR They who write the life of Augustus Caesar,--[Suetonius, Life of Augustus, c. 25.]--observe this in his military discipline, that he was wonderfully liberal ...
CHAPTER X OF MANAGING THE WILL Few things, in comparison of what commonly affect other men, move, or, to say better, possess me: for 'tis but reason they should concern a man, provided they do no...
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