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Excerpt from Essays of Montaigne, Vol. 4 IF TO philosophize be, as 'tis defined, to doubt, much more to write at random and play the fool, as I do, ought to be reputed doubting, for it is for novices and freshmen to inquire and to dispute, and for the chair man to moderate and determine. My modera tor is the authority of the divine will, that governs us without contradiction, and that is seated above these human and vain con testations. Abou...

Excerpt from Essays by Montaigne Montaigne's words are se sont austresfois surnommez Eyquem, sumom que touche encores une maison cogneue en Angleterre.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the...

Excerpt from The Essayes of Montaigne, Vol. 4 T seemeth verily that nature for the com fort of our miserable and wretched con dition hath allotted us no other portion but presumption. It is therefore (as Epictetus saith) that man hath nothing that is pro perly his owne but the use of his Opinions. Our hereditarie portion is nothing but smoke and wind. The Gods (as saith Philosophie) have health in true essence, and sicknesse in conccipt. Man,...

Excerpt from Essays of Montaigne, Vol. 7 His army, being in some consternation upon the rumor that was spread of the great forces that King Juba was leading against him, instead of abating the apprehension which his soldiers had conceived at the news and of lessening to them the forces of the enemy, having called them all together to encourage and reassure them, he took a quite contrary way to what we are used to do, for he told them that the...

Excerpt from Essays of Montaigne, Vol. 3 of 4About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the or...

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De essays is de eerste en nog steeds de rijkste, persoonlijkste en beroemdste essaybundel van de wereldliteratuur. Montaigne stelt op zeer beeldende en levendige wijze essentiële levensvragen aan de orde, over de dood, vriendschap, erotiek, wijsheid, angst, hartstocht en godsdienst. Het is een lijfboek geworden van vele lezers: een boek dat niet in de boekenkast maar op het nachtkastje thuishoort, een soort boezemvriend die je elke dag wel eve...

Excerpt from Essais de Montaigne, Vol. 3: Suivis de Sa Correspondance Et de la Servitude Volontaire d'Estienne de la Boëtie Or, de iuger la resolution et la constance en celuy qui ne croit pas encores certainement estre au dan gier, quoy qu'il y soit, ce n'est pas raison, et ne suf fit pas qu'il soit mort en cette desmarche, s'il ne s'y estoit mis iustement pour cet efi'ect il advient à la pluspart de roidir la contenance et leurs paroles pou...

Excerpt from The Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Translated by Charles Cotton, Vol. 1 of 2: Edited, With Some Account of the Life of the Author, and Notes by W. Carew Hazlitt The besetting sin of both Montaigne's translators seems to have been a propensity for reducing his language and phraseology to the language and phraseology of the age and country to which they belonged, and, moreover, for inserting paragraphs and words, not here and there...

Excerpt from The Essayes of Michael, Lord of Montaigne, Vol. 3: The Second BookePare I. Of the inconstancie 01 our actions 2. Of Drunkennesse A Custome of the He of Cea Tomorrow isa newday. Of Conscience Of exercise or practice Of the recompences or rewards of honour Of the affection of fathers to their children Of the Parthians armes Of 'books Of Cruelty An Apologie of Raymond Sebond.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of th...

Excerpt from Essais de Michel de Montaigne, Vol. 2: Avec les Notes de Tous les CommentateursCette heure, la cognoissance que i'en ay. Qu'on ne s'attende pas aux matieres, maisa la façon que i 'y donne: qu 'on veoye, en ce que i 'emprunte, si i 'ay sceu choisir dequoy rehaulser ou secouri1 proprement l'invention, qui vient tousiours de moy car ie fois dire aux aultres, non à ma teste, mais à ma suitte, ce que ie ne puis si bien dire, par foible...

The classic collection of selected essays by Michel de Motaigne introduced by Tim Parks. Translated by Michael Screech.

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Excerpt from Essais de Michel de Montaigne, Vol. 2: Texte Original de 1580 Avec les Variantes des Éditions de 1582 Et 1587Tierce secte, refuse des richesses que la fortune lui met en main par vne voie tres-legitime, pour auoir, dict il. A s'escrimer et a s'exercer contre la pauureté, en laquelle extreme il se maintint tousiours. Socrates s'essayoit, ce me semble, encor plus rudement, con seruant pour son exercice la malignité de la teste de sa...

Excerpt from The Works of Michel De Montaigne, Vol. 3 of 10: With Notes, Life and Letters, EssaysGood men forsooth are scarce: there are hardly as many as there are gates of Thebes or mouths of the rich Nile.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology ...

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