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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...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... ...essor Emeritus Ben R. Schneider, Lawrence University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first p... ...th at more ease and libertie to loose, to cleare and dilate it selfe. Et via vix tandem voci laxata dolore est. --Virg. Æn. 1. xi. 151. And scarce... ...ssembled the chiefest part unto him, yea and concealed the two pr ecedent articles from him. Now me thought it very strange, that it should lie in t... ...ssembled the chiefest part unto him, yea and concealed the two pr ecedent articles from him. Now me thought it very strange, that it should lie in t... ...hrysippus.' May God know it in our present quarell, wherein are a hundred articles, yea, great and deepe articles, to be removed and alterd, althoug... ... requiring that Lysander should once more take that charge upon him, they created one Aracus Admirall, but instituted Lysander superintendent of all... ...ame my Disciple, ----- quem duplici panno patientia velat, Mirabor, vitæ via si conversa decebit. --25. Whom patience clothes with sutes of double... ...n is to receive it. He that complaineth against nature, that she hath not created man with a fit instrument, to carrie sweet smells fast-tied to his...

...(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...

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