... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Fi... ... leaving Paris, stayed a short time at Blois, to attend the meeting of the States-General. We do not know 22 Essays: Book the First what part he took... ... there being some sort of relationship be- tween them), “since I have been united to you by marriage, which is one of the most weighty and sacred ties... ...as two war vessels, which remain in atten- dance on him. His functions are naval. I tell you what I learn, and mix up together the more or less probab... ...selves, put to death their brave captains newly returned triumphant from a naval victory they had obtained over the Lacedaemonians near the Arginusian... ...t of the world where the Portu- guese subdued the Indians, they found some states where it was a universal and inviolable law amongst them that every ... ... government is a structure composed of divers parts and members joined and united together, with so strict connection, that it is impos- 166 Essays: ... ...uch more easy and natural than that of Gaza,—[Theodore Gaza, rector of the Academy of Ferrara.]—in which the precepts are so intricate, and so harsh, ... ...?”—Cicero, T usc. Quaes., iv. 33.] Neither will that very picture that the Academy presents of it, as I conceive, contradict me, when I say, that this...

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... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Th... ...AIGNE Book the Third T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 A P A P A P A P A Penn S enn S enn S enn ... ...p sea, full of sea mon- sters, and laden with ships of war, to represent a naval battle; and, thirdly, to make it dry and even again for the combat of... ...d, they still close and stick to- gether, both moving and in heaps; as ill united bodies, that, shuffled together without order, find of themselves a ... ...v. 7, 43.] we are not, peradventure, at our last gasp. The conservation of states is a thing that, in all likelihood, surpasses our un- derstanding;—a... ...t us everyway cast our eyes; everything about us totters; in all the great states, both of Christendom and elsewhere, that are known to us, if you wil... ... at pleasure. Antiochus had in his youth strongly written in favour of the Academy; in his old age he wrote as much against it; would not, which of th... ...- ments of the world. May God drive our divisions far from her. Entire and united, I think her sufficiently defended from all other violences. I give ... ...employments, would bestow one half of that time in being an eye-witness of naval exploits, under some good captain of Rhodes, and the other half in ob...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.