Selected essays of Michel de Montaigne

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Selected essays of Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne ; translated by Charles Cotton ; edited, with biographical introduction by W. Carew Hazlitt

(Handy volume classics)

Thomas Y. Crowell, c1903

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Montaigne's essays

Essays of Montaigne

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Contents (35 essays): "That men by various ways arrive at the same end", "Of sorrow", "That the soul discharges her passions upon false", "Objects, where the true are wanting", "That the intention is judge of our actions", "Of liars", "Of quick or slow speech", "Of constancy", "Of fear", "That men are not to judge of our happiness till after death", "That it is folly to measure truth and error by our", "Own capacity", "Of friendship", "That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances", "Of the custom of wearing clothes", "That we laugh and cry for the same thing", "Of solitude", "Of the inequality among us", "Of ancient customs", "Of the vanity of words", "Of prayers", "Of books", "Of cruelty", "Of the inconstancy of our actions", "Use makes perfect", "Of glory", "Of presumption", "Of giving the lie", "Of liberty of conscience", "Of virtue", "Of anger", "Of profit and honesty", "Of repentance", "Of the inconvenience of greatness", "Of managing the will"

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  • That men by various ways arrive at the same end
  • Of sorrow
  • That the soul discharges her passions upon false
  • Objects, where the true are wanting
  • That the intention is judge of our actions
  • Of liars
  • Of quick or slow speech
  • Of constancy
  • Of fear
  • That men are not to judge of our happiness till after death
  • That it is folly to measure truth and error by our
  • Own capacity
  • Of friendship
  • That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances
  • Of the custom of wearing clothes
  • That we laugh and cry for the same thing
  • Of solitude
  • Of the inequality among us
  • Of ancient customs
  • Of the vanity of words
  • Of prayers
  • Of books
  • Of cruelty
  • Of the inconstancy of our actions
  • Use makes perfect
  • Of glory
  • Of presumption
  • Of giving the lie
  • Of liberty of conscience
  • Of virtue
  • Of anger
  • Of profit and honesty
  • Of repentance
  • Of the inconvenience of greatness
  • Of managing the will

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  • NCID
    BB17682777
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    fre
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xx, 359 p.
  • Size
    16 cm
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