Essays — Michel de Montaigne

Essays

Michel de Montaigne · Licence: Public domain · Source

• Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazlitt ¶3
• CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1. Preface The Life of Montaigne The Letters of Montaigne ¶5
• Nor is redundancy or paraphrase the only form of transgression in Cotton, for there are places in his author which he thought proper to omit, and it is hardly necessary to say that the restoration of all such matter to the text was considered essential to its integrity and completeness. ¶14
• I. That men by various ways arrive at the same end. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶18
• III. That our affections carry themselves beyond us. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶20
• IV. That the soul discharges her passions upon false objects, where the true are wanting. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶21
• V. Whether the governor of a place besieged ought himself to go out to parley. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶22
• VI. That the hour of parley is dangerous. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶23
• VII. That the intention is judge of our actions BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶24
• XIII. The ceremony of the interview of princes. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶30
• XIV. That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶31
• XV. Of the punishment of cowardice. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶32
• XVI. A proceeding of some ambassadors. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶33
• XVIII. That men are not to judge of our happiness till after death. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶35
• XIX. That to study philosophy is to learn to die. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶36
• XX. Of the force of imagination. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶37
• XXI. That the profit of one man is the damage of another. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶38
• XXII. Of custom, and that we should not easily change a law received. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶39
• XXIII. Various events from the same counsel. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶40
• XXV. Of the education of children. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶42
• XXVI. That it is folly to measure truth and error by our own capacity. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶43
• XXVIII. Nine-and-twenty sonnets of Estienne de la Boetie. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶45
• XXXI. That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶48
• XXXII. That we are to avoid pleasures, even at the expense of life. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶49
• XXXIII. That fortune is oftentimes observed to act by the rule of reason. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶50
• XXXIV. Of one defect in our government. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶51
• XXXV. Of the custom of wearing clothes. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶52
• XXXVII. That we laugh and cry for the same thing. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶54
• XXXIX. A consideration upon Cicero. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶56
• XL. That the relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶57
• XLI. Not to communicate a man's honour. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶58
• XLII. Of the inequality amongst us. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶59
• XLVII. Of the uncertainty of our judgment. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶64
• XLVIII. Of war-horses, or destriers. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶65
• L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶67
• LII. Of the parsimony of the Ancients. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶69
• After passing a restless night, when he bethought himself in the morning that there was some new town or district to be seen, he rose, we are told, with alacrity and pleasure. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶86
• "Written at Paris, the 25th day of November 1581. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶100
• "A Monsieur de MONTAIGNE, Knight of my Order, Gentleman in Ordinary of my Chamber, being at present in Rome." BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶102
• It was only on the Sunday that he began to converse with me on any subject beyond the immediate one of his illness, and what the ancient doctors thought of it: we had not touched on public affairs, for I found at the very outset that he had a dislike to them. BOOK THE FIRST. · ¶118

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