THE WORKS OF MICHEL de MONTAIGNE

With Notes, Life and Letters
Complete 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

Number

ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE
translated 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