THE WORKS OF MICHEL de MONTAIGNE
With Notes, Life and LettersComplete in Ten Volumes
THE WORKS OF MICHEL de MONTAIGNE
an essay by RALPH WALDO EMERSON
illustrated
EDWIN C. HILL
new york.
EMERSON EDITION
Ten Hundred and Fifty Copies have been printed
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ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNEtranslated by CHARLES COTTON
revised by WILLIAM CAREW HAZLETT
VOLUME TWO
New York: edwin c. hill mcmx
Copyright 1910 by
EDWIN C. HILL
CONTENTS
Various Events from the same Counsel | 11 |
Of Pedantry | 33 |
Of the Institution of Children | 60 |
It is Folly to Refer Truth and Error to our own Capacity | 142 |
Of Friendship | 150 |
Of Moderation | 178 |
Of Cannibals | 189 |
That it is Meet to Intervene Discreetly in Judging the Divine Ordinances | 218 |
To Avoid Pleasures at the Expense of Life | 223 |
Fortune is Oftentimes met with in the Train of Reason | 226 |
On a Defect in our Government | 233 |
Of the Custom of Clothing Oneself | 235 |
Of Cato the Younger | 243 |
How we Cry and Laugh for the same Thing | 251 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
The Confidant. From Painting by Pio Ricci | Frontispiece |
The Muses Teaching Cupid to Walk. From Painting by Auguste-Barthelemy-Glaize | Page 114 |
The Tomb of Achilles. From Painting by Georges Moreau De Tours | Page 160 |
Venus and Bellona. From Painting by Paul Schobelt | Page 254 |