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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. |... ...gientem circuit hastam. -- LUCAN, lib. vi. 220. Even so the wound-enraged Austrian beare, On whom a Moore hath thir'ld his slinged speare, Wheeles ... ...er, or of the taste of some good cup of wine, many good discourses at the lower end have utterly been lost. He shall weigh the carriage of every man ... ...tead, but that at my first admittance it made me to over-skip some of the lower formes, and to be placed in the highest. For at thirteene yeares of a... ...ich was lately gained against the Turkes under the conduct of Don John of Austria. But it hath pleased God to make us at other times both see and fe... ...asily perceive they had been other manner of men than Peter, Guilliam, or Michell. Item, I commend and am much beholding to Iames Amiot, in the cour... ...rt of my shame. And my Ancestors have heretofore beene surnamed Higham or Eyquem, a surname which also belongs to a house well knowen in England. As...

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