THE WORKS OF MICHEL de MONTAIGNE
With Notes, Life and LettersComplete in Ten Volumes Comment. From painting by Lorenzo Delleani.
THE WORKS OF MICHEL de MONTAIGNE
an essay by
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
illustrated
EDWIN C. HILL
new york.
EMERSON EDITION
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Comment. From painting by Lorenzo Delleani. ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNEtranslated by CHARLES COTTON
revised by WILLIAM CAREW HAZLETT
VOLUME THREE
New York: edwin c. hill mcmx
Copyright 1910 by
EDWIN C. HILL
CONTENTS
Of Solitude | 11 |
A Consideration upon Cicero | 35 |
That the Taste for Good and Evil Depends in Good Part upon the Opinion We have of Them | 46 |
Not to Communicate One’s Glory | 90 |
Of the Inequality which is between us | 95 |
Of Sumptuary Laws | 115 |
Of Sleeping | 119 |
Of the Battle of Dreux | 124 |
Of Names | 127 |
Of the Uncertainty of our Judgment | 138 |
Of Destriers | 151 |
Of Ancient Customs | 169 |
Of Democritus and Heraclitus | 178 |
Of the Vanity of Words | 185 |
Of the Parsimony of the Ancients | 192 |
Of a Saying of Cæsar | 194 |
Of Vain Subtelties | 196 |
Of Perfumes | 202 |
Of Prayers | 207 |
Of Age | 226 |
Of the Inconstancy of our Actions | 232 |
Of Drunkenness | 246 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Comment. From Painting by Lorenzo Delleani | Frontispiece |
Sleeping. From Painting by C. E. Perugini | Page 118 |
Prayers. From Painting by Luis Falero | Page 206 |
Drunkenness. From Painting by Luigi Mussini | Page 246 |