Essays.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

de Montaigne, Michel.

Contributor:

Hazlitt, William Carew.

Cotton, Charles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French essays--Translations into English.

French essays.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592--Translations into English.

Local Subjects:

French essays--Translations into English.

French essays.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1996 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland : The Floating Press, 2009.

Summary:

Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays (Essais, literally ""Attempts"") in 1850. Known for his skill at merging serious intellectual debate with personal anecdotes, his vast work collects together some of the most influential essays the world has ever seen, shaping the thoughts Blaise Pascal, René Descartes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stefan Zweig, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Isaac Asimov among others...

Contents:

Title; Contents; Preface; The Life of Montaigne; The Letters of Montaigne; The Author to the Reader- (Omitted by Cotton); BOOK THE FIRST; Chapter I That Men by Various Ways Arrive at the Same End; Chapter II Of Sorrow; Chapter III That Our Affections Carry Themselves Beyond Us; Chapter IV That the Soul Expends Its Passions Upon False Objects, Where the True Are Wanting; Chapter V Whether the Governor of a Place Besieged Ought Himself to Go Out to Parley; Chapter VI That the Hour of Parley Dangerous; Chapter VII That the Intention is Judge of Our Actions; Chapter VIII Of Idleness

Chapter IX Of LiarsChapter X Of Quick or Slow Speech; Chapter XI Of Prognostications; Chapter XII Of Constancy; Chapter XIII The Ceremony of the Interview of Princes; Chapter XIV That Men Are Justly Punished for Being Obstinate in the Defence of a Fort that is not in Reason to Be Defended; Chapter XV Of the Punishment of Cowardice; Chapter XVI A Proceeding of Some Ambassadors; Chapter XVII Of Fear; Chapter XVIII That Men Are not to Judge of Our Happiness Till After Death; Chapter XIX That to Study Philosopy is to Learn to Die; Chapter XX Of the Force of Imagination

Chapter XXI That the Profit of One Man is the Damage of AnotherChapter XXII Of Custom, and that We Should not Easily Change a Law Received; Chapter XXIII Various Events from the Same Counsel; Chapter XXIV Of Pedantry; Chapter XXV Of the Education of Children; Chapter XXVI That it is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity; Chapter XXVII Of Friendship; Chapter XXVIII Nine and Twenty Sonnets of Estienne De La Boitie; Chapter XXIX Of Moderation; Chapter XXX Of Cannibals; Chapter XXXI That a Man is Soberly to Judge of the Divine Ordinances

Chapter XXXII That We Are to Avoid Pleasures, Even at the Expense of LifeChapter XXXIII That Fortune is Oftentimes Observed to Act by the Rule of Reason; Chapter XXXIV Of One Defect in Our Government; Chapter XXXV Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes; Chapter XXXVI Of Cato the Younger; Chapter XXXVII That We Laugh and Cry for the Same Thing; Chapter XXXVIII Of Solitude; Chapter XXXIX A Consideration Upon Cicero; Chapter XL That the Relish for Good and Evil Depends in Great Measure Upon the Opinion We Have of Them; Chapter XLI Not to Communicate a Man's Honour

Chapter XLII Of the Inequality Amoungst UsChapter XLIII Of Sumptuary Laws; Chapter XLIV Of Sleep; Chapter XLV Of the Battle of Dreux; Chapter XLVI Of Names; Chapter XLVII Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment; Chapter XLVIII Of War Horses, or Destriers; Chapter XLIX Of Ancient Customs; Chapter L Of Democritus and Heraclitus; Chapter LI Of the Vanity of Words; Chapter LII Of the Parsimony of the Ancients; Chapter LIII Of a Saying of Caesar; Chapter LIV Of Vain Subtleties; Chapter LV Of Smells; Chapter LVI Of Prayers; Chapter LVII Of Age; BOOK THE SECOND

Chapter I - Of the Inconstancy of Our Actions

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-77556-987-X

OCLC:

493304601