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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...:50 AM Montaigne's Essays Curæ leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent. --Sen. Hip. Act. ii. Scena 2. Light cares can freely speake, Great cares heart r... ... seene by the formes of sommonings and challenges, that the Princes of the East, and their successors yet remaining, have in use, so fierce, so haugh... ...ties of Greece they went to seeke for Rhetoricians, for Painters, and for Musicians; whereas in Lacedemon, they sought for Law-givers, for Magistrat... ...with heat, what clog'd with frost. What wind drives kindly to th' Italian coast. He shall endevour to be familiarly acquainted with the customes, ... ...that it is not an Iland, but rather firme land, and a continent, with the East Indias on one side, and the countries lying under the two Poles on th... ...en inundations, whereof we now treat the causes. In Medoc alongst the Sea-coast, my brother the Lord of Arsacke, may see a towne of his buried under... ...y selfe some luster or grace have rather neede of some of Antinonides the Musicians invention; who, when he was to play any musick , gave order that...

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