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...ocrates maketh his soule to moove, with a naturall and common motion. Thus saith a plaine Country-man, and thus a seely Woman: Hee never hath other people in his mouth than Coach-makers, Joyners, Coblers, and Masons....

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...reprinted in 1910 and 1924." Additional material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presen... ..., and how a received law should not easily be changed XXIII. Divers events from one selfsame counsell XXIV. Of Pedantisme XXV. Of the Institution and ... ... collecting; and this was to Montaigne like Bacchus, closed in, or loosed from his great Iupiters thigh) I the indulgent father invited two right Hon... ...d by no meanes be appeased, nor by the wailefull out-cries ofall sorts of people (as of men, women, and children) be moved to any pittty, they prost... ...ts atchieved by him, and with a fierce and arrogant manner upbraiding the people with them, had not the heart so much as to take their lots into his... ...utly defending themselves, covenanted to receive them as friends unto the people of Rome, and to enter their Citie as a place confederate, removing ... ...y race, yea and also to others. There is a family at Paris and another at Montpellier called Montaigne, another in Britany, and one in Xaintonge, sur...

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........ 10 V ? THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL .....................................................................................................11 VI ? A VISIT FROM THE SEA .................................................................................................... 12 VII ? TO A GARDENER............................................................................................

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... like not a single line; But like my title, for it is not mine. That title from a better man I stole: Ah, how much better, had I stol’n the whole! A P... ..............................................................11 VI – A VISIT FROM THE SEA ................................................................. .............................................. 53 XII – THE SCOTSMAN’S RETURN FROM ABROAD ............................................................ 54... ...o Dr. Herbert of Paris, whom I knew only for a week, and to Dr. Caissot of Montpellier, whom I knew only for ten days, and who have yet written their ... ... That’s fairly worth the travelling to. On every hand the roads begin, And people walk with zeal therein; But wheresoe’er the highways tend, Be sure t... ..., Forever by the woods of song And lands that to the Muse belong; Or if in peopled streets, or in The abhorred pedantic sanhedrim, It should be yours ... ...at wed the maid, That with weak virtues, weaker hands, Sow gladness on the peopled lands, And still with laughter, song and shout, Spin the great whee...

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..., one of the narrowest and most deserted streets of the district of Saint- Jean, a single window was still alight on the third floor of an old house, from whose damaged gutters torrents of water were falling into the street. Mme Burle was sitting up before a meager fire of vine stocks, while her little grandson Charles pored over his lessons by the pale light of a lamp....

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...Jean, a single window was still alight on the third floor of an old house, from whose damaged gutters torrents of water were falling into the street. ... ...e massive style of the First Empire, dented and worn by continuous transit from one garrison town to an other, almost disappeared from view beneath t... ...er mind, and under its influence she would live her whole life over again, from the birth of her son, whom she had pictured rising amid glory to the h... ... taking the Cafe de Paris, had one fine day brought her back with him from Montpellier, where he was wont to repair twice a year to purchase liqueurs.... ... was a certain amount of heavy comfort, the familiar intimacy of penurious people who do not change their plates at every course but become joyously e... ...same he groped his way as gently as possible to the door and listened. Two people were talking in the room, and he stood aghast, for it was Burle and ... ...ugging his shoulders. The widow was undoubtedly a fine woman, however much people might talk. Some of those who disparaged her would, in reality, be o...

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...left vaguely unsatisfied by that epitome of civiliza- tion which stretches from the Arc de Triomphe to the Gymnase theatre. It had already been intima... ...one rainy morning in mid-September, for the charming little city of Tours, from which point it seemed possible to make a variety of fruit- ful excursi... ...of the sky. Nothing can be finer than the view of its course which you get from the battlements and terraces of Amboise. As I looked down on it from t... ...ng in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by the contents of their enormo... ...le an image of the good King Louis. Good as he had been,—the father of his people, as he was called (I believe he remitted various taxes),—he was not ... ..., rising straight through the building, with two courses of steps, so that people may ascend and descend without meeting. This staircase is a truly ma... ...pent in the buffet of the station at Cette while I waited for the train to Montpellier. I had left Narbonne in the afternoon, and by the time I reache... ...ot ventured to return to the table d’hote at Narbonne. The Hotel Nevet, at Montpellier, which I reached an hour later, has an ancient renown all over ... ...expressive than that of the new caravansaries. It dates from the days when Montpellier was still accounted a fine winter residence for people with wea...

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...elpless in her dead cerements of a Consti- tution, you gathering in on her from all lands, with your armaments and plots, your invadings and truculent... ...hich therefore let us two, O Reader, dwell on willingly, for a little; and from its endless significance endeavour to extract what may, in present cir... ..., on the whole, darkness. But thus too, when foul old Rome had to be swept from the Earth, and those Northmen, and other 8 The French Revolution - V ... ...m in prison,—Roy- alist types replace the worn types often snatched from a People’s-Friend in old ill days. In our ‘peculiar tribune’ we write and red... ... another; citoyen (citizen) were suitabler; we even say thou, as ‘the free peoples of Antiq- uity did:’ so have Journals and the Improvised Commune su... ...rettes; with Heroes and Chouan Smugglers; and the loyal warmth of a simple people, blown into flame and fury by theological and seignorial bellows! So... ...gress; intrigu- ing, in case of necessity, with the Royalists and English. Montpellier, Bourdeaux, Nantes: all France, that is not un- der the swoop o...

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... equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James Greville Fane by Henry James From the 1893 Macmillan and Co. edition. C oming in to dress for dinner, I ... ...le literary lapses, with its contracted space for the arms (she wrote only from the elbow down) and the confusion of scrappy, scribbled sheets which h... ...tle article was practically composed—ready to be transferred on the morrow from the polished plate of fancy. I believe it attracted some notice, was t... ... charming. She asked me to come and see her, and I went. She lived then in Montpellier Square; which helped me to see how dissociated her imagination ... ...h which she ever honoured me, was when she said: “I don’t want to know the people mamma knows; I mean to know others.” I took due note of the remark, ... ... on the results. The results were that Ethel went to “big” parties and got people to take her. Some of them were people she had met abroad, and others... ... to take her. Some of them were people she had met abroad, and others were people whom the people she had met abroad had met. They ministered alike to...

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...EY, THE PACK, AND THE PACK-SADDLE IN A LITTLE PLACE called Le Monastier, in a pleasant highland valley fifteen miles from Le Puy, I spent about a mont... ...I found my- self a rallying-point; every one was anxious to be kind and helpful to the stranger. This was not merely from the natural hospitality of m... ...one was anxious to be kind and helpful to the stranger. This was not merely from the natural hospitality of mountain people, nor even from the surpris... ...ee will in Le Monastier, when he might just as well have lived anywhere else in this big world; it arose a good deal from my projected excursion south... ... in the sunshine; and as we came down through St. Martin de Frugeres, the church was crowded to the door, there were people kneeling without upon the ... ...t sow, grout- ing under the table and rubbing against your legs, is no impos- sible accompaniment to dinner. But the people of the inn, in nine cases ... ...ken with people who either pretended or believed that they had seen, from the Pie de Finiels, white ships sailing by Montpellier and Cette. Behind was...

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...f interest and of benefit in noting the successive phases of any mind which was always pressing forward, equally ready to learn and to unlearn either from its own thoughts or from those of others....

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... was always pressing forward, equally ready to learn and to unlearn either from its own thoughts or from those of oth ers. But a motive which weighs ... ...elf to blame if he reads farther, and I do not desire any other indulgence from him than that of bearing in mind that for him these pages were not wri... ...ed to lead the life he led, with the disadvantages under which he laboured from the first, and with those which he brought upon himself by his marriag... ...l of historical details concerning 10 Autobiography the obscurest ancient people, while about modern history, except detached passages, such as the D... ...se than in prose: this, he said, was a real advantage. The other was, that people in general attached more value to verse than it deserved, and the po... ...hey are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions or phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinio... ... by the beautiful mountain route of Castres and St. Pons, from Toulouse to Montpellier, in which last neighbourhood Sir Samuel had just bought the est... ...odily exercises, in none of which, however, I made any proficiency; and at Montpellier I attended the excellent winter courses of lectures at the Facu... ...s under the private tuition of M. Lenthéric, a profes sor at the Lycée of Montpellier. But the greatest, perhaps, of the many advantages which I owed...

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......................................................... 173 Chapter 1.7.XI. From V ersailles. ............................................................ ...osterity in the same doubt. This Prince, in the year 1744, while hastening from one end of his kingdom to the other, and suspending his conquests in F... ...urches resounded with supplications and groans; the prayers of priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an inte... ...priests and people were every moment interrupted by their sobs: and it was from an interest so dear and tender that this Surname of Bien-aime fashione... ...y-rate per hour, which are not liable to interruption. The shepherd of the people has been carried home from Little Trianon, heavy of heart, and been ... ...ime to time as an article of news. Bets are doubtless depending; nay, some people ‘express themselves loudly in the streets. ’ (Memoires de M. le Baro... ...gress; intriguing, in case of neces- sity, with the Royalists and English. Montpellier, Bourdeaux, Nantes: all France, that is not under the swoop of ...

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...wn tresses played; there was a glow in its white and red, partly reflected from the rose-colored satin lining of her fashionable bonnet, partly due to... ..., yet even at that early hour several women in gala dress were coming away from the T uileries, not without backward glances at the gates and pouting ... ...ody is coming away,” she answered in childish vexation, which drew a smile from her father. “The review only begins at half-past twelve,” he said; he ... ...tricolor flag was still waving; but as they passed under the arch by which people came and went between the Gardens of the T uileries and the Place du... ...behind his daughter. He looked grave. He seemed to have left the two young people together for some purpose of his own, and now he furtively watched t... ...at his rider was all but thrown off. Julie cried out, her face grew white, people looked at her curiously, but she saw no one, her eyes were fixed upo... ...rs previously, a sudden order from the Foreign Office had dragged him from Montpellier, whither he had gone on account of consumptive tendencies. He g... ...ille’s eldest son. His history is interest- ing. His physician sent him to Montpellier in 1802; it was hoped that in that climate he might recover fro... ...hing progress in his studies; his health did the same under the faculty of Montpellier; he consoled his cap- tivity, and at the same time his cure was...

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...of the creation, “Increase and Multiply.” And since it is natural in young people to desire the embraces, proper to the marriage bed, it behoves paren... ...ch sometimes enables them to bear at 65. But many times the menses proceed from some vio- lence done to nature, or some morbific matter, which often p... ...ess- ing of the Gods: not only so, but the sex, whether male or female, is from their disposal also, though it cannot be de- nied, that secondary caus... ... must be used for a considerable time, or you will reap but little benefit from them. The act of coition being over, let the woman repose herself on h... ...d himself commanded Moses not to receive such to offer sacrifice among his people; and he also renders the reason Leviticus, xxii. 28, “Lest he pollut... ...emselves into human shapes, may abuse both men and women, and, with wicked people, use carnal copula- tion; but that any unnatural conjunction can bri... ...tor of 127 The Works of Aristotle anatomy to the College of Physicians at Montpellier in France, records the history of a maid, whose water being a l...

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...e Montparnasse, where a number of artists were in the habit of dining; and from then on I dined there every night. I have described the place elsewher... ... a preface, so that I need not here say more about it. As a rule, the same people came in every night, but now and then oth ers came, perhaps only on... ... Paris to return to London. Once, long after wards, I received a telegram from him which ran as follows: ‘Please send twenty five pounds at once. Mot... ...s of a book, I have finished with it for good and all. I am impatient when people insist on talking to me about it; I am glad if they like it, but do ... ...s lips broke into a smile, and it was so tender that his thin face, sallow from long exposure to subtropical suns, was transfigured. He no longer stru... ...riage now,’ he said. ‘I’m buying furniture already.’ ‘I think only English people could have behaved so oddly as you, in postponing your marriage with... ... Galen, Rhases and Montagnana! After me, not I after you, ye men of Paris, Montpellier, Meissen, and Cologne; all you that come from the countries alo...

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...angely contradict one another that it seems impossible they should proceed from one and the same person. We find the younger Marius one while a son of... .... Gell., xvii. 14.] There seems some reason in forming a judgment of a man from the most usual methods of his life; but, considering the natural insta... ...the whole course of his life, that he has slipped away clear and undecided from the most daring critics. I can more hardly believe a man’s constancy t... ...how to die? Josephus, when engaged in so near and apparent danger, a whole people being violently bent against him, that there was no visible means of... ...city of Epirus being reduced by the Romans to the last extremity, gave the people counsel uni- versally to kill themselves; but, these preferring to g... ... rather than await the stroke of justice, told him that it was to do other people’s business to preserve his life to put it after into the hands of th... ...ll my race, and indeed to others also; there are two families at Paris and Montpellier, whose surname is Montaigne, another in Brit- tany, and one in ...

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...ony Motteux The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initia... ...on (1653) of Urquhart’s translation. Foot- notes initialled ‘M.’ are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translato... ...(as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell. 4 Gargantua & Pantagruel Introduction ... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ...the city, and was beheld of everybody there with great admiration; for the people of Paris are so sottish, so badot, so foolish and fond by nature, th... ...ficiently dry already, without heating myself any further. He went then to Montpellier, where he met with the good wives of Mirevaux, and good jovial ... ...emember to have seen you before now, since the last time that you acted at Montpellier with our ancient friends, Anthony Saporra, Guy Bourguyer, Balth... ... be discerned. Nor of Quenelault, a Norman physician, who died suddenly at Montpellier, merely for having sideways took a worm out of his hand with a ...