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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...ame, so indeede Gods- gift to me, my bonus genius, and sent me as the good Angel to Raimond in Tasso (Tas. Gior. can. 7) for my assistant to combat t... ...ne) Calls thee to this thrice-honorable prize; Montaigne, no cragg'd Mountaine, but faire plaine. And who would resty rest, when SHEE bids ... ...o Francis our King, and over all his forces, which he then had beyond the Mountaines in Italie, a man highly favoured in al our court, and otherwise... ...o shewing him to the Lord of Villiers, Commissarie of the Artillerie, hee mounted a culverin so levell, that had not the Marquis perceived the fire, ... ...s scholler to have a sensible feeling of himselfe presenting Bradamant or Angelica before him, as a Mistresse to enjoy, embelished with a naturall, ... ...d hindereth it selfe in it selfe. He that desireth to be made of a man an Angell doth nothing for himselfe: He should be nothing the better by it: An... ... perfect master in the knowledge of all things; and of his books, as of a seminary, a spring-garden or store-house of all kinds of sufficiency and l... ...r Venus that good huswife, other then a tickling delight of emptying ones seminary vessels: as is the pleasure which nature giveth us to discharge o... ...o fraught with sentences, that right or wrong they are hudled up. It is a seminary of morall and a magazine of pollitique discourses, for the provis...

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