Essays — Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne · רישיון: Public domain · מקור

• There was a general silence hereupon, and his uncle was prevented from replying by tears and sobs. At last he said that whatever he thought for the best would be agreeable to him; and as he intended to make him his heir, he was at liberty to dispose of what would be his. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶122
• On the Monday morning he had become so ill that he quite despaired of himself; and he said to me very pitifully: "Brother, do not you feel pain for all the pain I am suffering? Do you not perceive now that the help you give me has no other effect than that of lengthening my suffering?" BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶131
• To Monseigneur, Monseigneur de MONTAIGNE. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶140
• Monseigneur, I pray God to grant you a very long and happy life. From Paris, this 18th of June 1568. Your most humble and most obedient son, BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶143
• To Monsieur, Monsieur de LANSAC,--[This letter appears to belong to 1570.]--Knight of the King's Order, Privy Councillor, Sub-controller of his Finance, and Captain of the Cent Gardes of his Household. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶146
• Monsieur, I pray God to have you in His keeping. Your obedient servant, MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶148
• To Monsieur, Monsieur de MESMES, Lord of Roissy and Malassize, Privy Councillor to the King. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶150
• Monsieur, I pray God to grant you a long and happy life. From Montaigne, this 30th April 1570. Your humble servant, MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶152
• To Monsieur, Monsieur de L'HOSPITAL, Chancellor of France BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶154
• Moreover, sir, this slender gift, to make two throws of one stone at the same time, may likewise serve, if you please, to testify the honour and respect which I entertain for your ability and high qualities; for as to those gifts which are adventitious and accidental, it is not to my taste to take them into account. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶161
• Sir, I pray God to grant you a very happy and a very long life. From Montaigne, this 30th of April 1570.--Your humble and obedient servant, BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶162
• To Monsieur, Monsieur de Folx, Privy Councillor, and Ambassador of His Majesty to the Signory of Venice.--[ Printed before the 'Vers Francois' of Etienne de la Boetie, 8vo, Paris, 1572.] BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶164
• To Mademoiselle de MONTAIGNE, my Wife.--[Printed as a preface to the "Consolation of Plutarch to his Wife," published by Montaigne, with several other tracts by La Boetie, about 1571.] BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶172
• To Monsieur DUPUY,--[This is probably the Claude Dupuy, born at Paris in 1545, and one of the fourteen judges sent into Guienne after the treaty of Fleix in 1580. It was perhaps under these circumstances that Montaigne addressed to him the present letter.]--the King's Councillor in his Court and Parliament of Paris. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶176
• To the Jurats of Bordeaux.--[Published from the original among the archives of the town of Bordeaux, M. Gustave Brunet in the Bulletin du Bibliophile, July 1839.] BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶179
• To the same.--[The original is among the archives of Toulouse.] BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶182
• XII.--["According to Dr. Payen, this letter belongs to 1588. Its authenticity has been called in question; but wrongly, in our opinion. See 'Documents inedits', 1847, p. 12."--Note in 'Essais', ed. Paris, 1854, iv. 381. It does not appear to whom the letter was addressed.] BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶187
• From Orleans, this 16th of February, in the morning [1588-9?].--Your very humble servant, MONTAIGNE. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶189
• To Mademoiselle PAULMIER.--[This letter, at the time of the publication of the variorum edition of 1854, appears to have been in private hands. See vol. iv. p. 382.] BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶191
• To the KING, HENRY IV.--[The original is in the French national library, in the Dupuy collection. It was first discovered by M. Achille Jubinal, who printed it with a facsimile of the entire autograph, in 1850. St. John gives the date wrongly as the 1st January 1590.] BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶194
• From Montaigne, this 18th of January [1590]. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶197
• XV. To the same.--[ This letter is also in the national collection, among the Dupuy papers. It was first printed in the "Journal de l'Instruction Publique," 4th November 1846.] BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶198
• Sire, I pray God for your prosperity and health. Your very humble and very obedient servant and subject, MONTAIGNE. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶200
• From Montaigne, this 2d of September [1590]. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶201
• I have seen no one from the king of Navarre; they say that M. de Biron has seen him. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶206
• THE AUTHOR TO THE READER.--[Omitted by Cotton.] BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶207
• From Montaigne, the 12th June 1580--[So in the edition of 1595; the edition of 1588 has 12th June 1588] BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶209
• From Montaigne, the 1st March 1580. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶210
• --[See Bonnefon, Montaigne, 1893, p. 254. The book had been licensed for the press on the 9th May previous. The edition of 1588 has 12th June 1588;]-- BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶211
• Edited by William Carew Hazlitt BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶216
• "Et via vix tandem voci laxata dolore est." CHAPTER II · ¶236
• "Chi puo dir com' egli arde, a in picciol fuoco," CHAPTER II · ¶239
• say the Innamoratos, when they would represent an 'insupportable passion. CHAPTER II · ¶241
• "Misero quod omneis Eripit sensus mihi: nam simul te, Lesbia, aspexi, nihil est super mi, Quod loquar amens. Lingua sed torpet: tenuis sub artus Flamma dimanat; sonitu suopte Tintinant aures; gemina teguntur Lumina nocte." CHAPTER II · ¶242
• "Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent." CHAPTER II · ¶245
• A surprise of unexpected joy does likewise often produce the same effect: CHAPTER II · ¶247
• "Ut me conspexit venientem, et Troja circum Arma amens vidit, magnis exterrita monstris, Diriguit visu in medio, calor ossa reliquit, Labitur, et longo vix tandem tempore fatur." CHAPTER II · ¶248
• We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves: fear, desire, hope, still push us on towards the future, depriving us, in the meantime, of the sense and consideration of that which is to amuse us with the thought of what shall be, even when we shall be no more.--[Rousseau, Emile, livre ii.] CHAPTER III · ¶253
• "Calamitosus est animus futuri auxius." CHAPTER III · ¶254

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