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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...Montaigne's Essays Montaigne's Essays MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592) Translation by John Florio (1553-162... ...Montaigne's Essays Montaigne's Essays MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592) Translation by John Florio (1553-1625) Book... ...Montaigne's Essays Montaigne's Essays MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592) Translation by John Florio (1553-1625) Book I. |... ...Montaigne's Essays Montaigne's Essays MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE (1533-1592) Translation by John Florio (1553-1625) Book I. | ... ...n by John Florio (1553-1625) Book I. | Book II. | Book III. Note on the e-text: this Renascence Editions text was provided by Professor Emeritu... ...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...at take we not hold of, to have something to strive withall? It is not the golden locks thou tearest, nor the whitenesse of the breast, which thou th... ...ivided into severall companies: in the first were found a hundred and ten Knights sitting at one table and all called Williams; besides private gent... ..., with bristles, with hides, with mosse, with feathers, with skales, with fleeces, and with silke, according as their quality might need or their co...

...(Author to reader)--Reader, loe here a well-meaning Booke. It doth at the first entrance forewarne thee, that in contriving the same I have proposed unto my selfe no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my force...

...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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