THE WORKS OF MICHEL de MONTAIGNE

With Notes, Life and Letters
Complete in Ten Volumes

Phyrric Dance. From painting by Jean Leon Gerome.

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

Number _____

Phyrric Dance. From painting by Jean Leon Gerome. ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE
translated by CHARLES COTTON
revised by WILLIAM CAREW HAZLETT
VOLUME FOUR
New York: edwin c. hill mcmx

Copyright 1910 by

EDWIN C. HILL

CONTENTS

          

A Custom of the Isle of Cea	11
Business To-Morrow	41
Of Conscience	45
Of Exercitation	53
Of Recompenses of Honor	76
Of the Affection of Fathers to their Children	83
Of the Arms of the Parthians	126
Of Books	133
Of Cruelty	162
Apology for Raimond de Sebonde	193

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    

Phyrric Dance. From Painting by Jean Leon Gerome	Frontispiece
The First Born. From Painting by Amos Cassioli	Page 82
The Quarter Hour of Rabelais. From Painting by Tito Conti	Page 136
Temptation. From Painting by Eduardo Gelli	Page 170