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...in 1603. In 'The World's Classics' the first volume was published in 1904, and reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. ... ... presentation is copyright © 1999 The University of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and corrections to the Publisher, ... ...ion XXI. The profit of one man is the dammage of another XXII. Of customs, and how a received law should not easily be changed XXIII. Divers events fr... ...e Queene- mother of France, besieging Mondolphe, a place in Italie, in the province named Vicariate, seeing fire given to a piece that stood upright ... ...10/2005 3:35:32 AM Montaigne's Essays the same King who by meanes of her, ranged his stomacke to be nourished with poyson; and the mayden that Albe ... ...will grow, and very often shave away that of the left side: where in some Provinces neere unto us some women cherish their haire before, and other so... ...inished, there wanteth nothing but to adde the verse unto it;' for, having ranged and cast the plot in his mind, he made small accompt of feet, of me... ...likewise to frame and prescribe this unto the rules of reason; direct and range the same by premeditation and discourse. He must bid all manner of t... ...is belly; you might have seene in his house, set out for a show, a row of basins for seaven or eight dayes. It was all his study, it was all his tal...
...well-meaning Booke. It doth at the first entrance forewarne thee, that in contriving the same I have proposed unto my selfe no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends...
...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of rep...