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The COMPLETE WORKS of M. DE MONTESQUIEU.

Volume IV.

The COMPLETE WORKS of M. DE MONTESQUIEU.

TRANSLATED from the FRENCH.

IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOLUME the FOURTH.

London,

Printed for T. Evans, in the Strand; and W. Davis, in Piccadilly.

MDCCLXXVII.

Table of Contents

FAMILIAR LETTERS. by PRESIDENT DE MONTESQUIEU.

To Father Cerati* of the Congregation of the Orators of Saint Philip at Rome.

To the Same.

To Monsieur L’Abbé Venuti*, at Clerac.

To the Abbé Nicolini*, at Florence.

To Mr. Cerati, at Pisa.

To Abbé Venuti at Clerac.

To Abbé de Guasco, at Turin.

To the Count of Guasco, Colonel of Foot.

To the Abbé de Guasco.

To the Same.

To the Same.

To the Countess de Pontac.

To Mr. Cerati.

To Abbé de Guasco at Clerac.

To the Same.

To the Same.

To the Same.

To the Same.

To the same Abbé de Guasco.

To the Same.

To Mr. Cerati.

To Abbé de Guasco, at Aix.

LETTER XXIII.

To the Same.

To the Same.

To the Same.

To Mr. Cerati.

To Prince Charles Edward.

To the Grand Prior Solar, Ambassador from Malta, at Rome.

To the Abbé and Count de Guasco, at Paris.

A Billet to the Same.

To Mr. Cerati.

To Abbé Venuti.

To the Abbé Count de Guasco.

To the Abbé Venuti, at Bourdeaux.

To Mr. Cerati.

To Abbé Venuti.

To Abbé Venuti.

To the Abbé Count de Guasco.

To Abbé de Guasco.

To the Same.

To the Same.

To the Same, at Bourdeaux.

To the Same.

To the Same Abbé de Guasco.

To the Same at Vienna.

To the same Abbé de Guasco at Vienna.

To the Same, at Verona.

To the Same.

To the Same, at Naples.

To the Same.

To Mr. Cerati.

To the Abbé Marquis Nicolini.

To Abbé Count de Guasco.

To the Same.

To the Auditor Bertolini, at Florence.

To Abbé Count de Guasco.

A Billet to the Same.

To the Grand Prior Solar, at Turin.

The Fragment of a Letter from M. de Montesquieu, to the King of Poland, Duke of Lorraine, to solicit his Majesty for a place in the Academy of Nantz.

Fragment of the King of Poland’s Answer, to the foregoing Letter.

To M. de Solignac, Secretary to the Literary Society at Nantz.

From M. de Montesquieu. To the Author of a short View of the Philosophical Works of Lord Bolingbroke.

To the Dutchess of Aiguillon.

From the Dutchess of Aiguillon, to Abbé de Guasco.

An article taken from a Letter of Baron Secondat de Montesquieu, to the Abbé Count de Guasco.

Article of a Letter to the Same.

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES OF M. DE SECONDAT, BARON DE MONTESQUIEU.

AN ORATION Pronounced the 24th of January, 1728. by PRESIDENT MONTESQUIEU: When he was received into the French Academy, in the room of the late M. de SACY.

AN ESSAY UPON TASTE, IN SUBJECTS OF NATURE, AND OF ART.

A FRAGMENT.

OF THE PLEASURES OF THE SOUL.

OF THE MENTAL FACULTIES*.

OF CURIOSITY.

OF THE PLEASURES OF ORDER.

OF THE PLEASURES OF VARIETY.

OF THE PLEASURES OF SYMMETRY.

OF CONTRASTS.

OF THE PLEASURES OF SURPRIZE.

OF DIFFERENT CAUSES THAT PRODUCE SENSATION.

OF SENSIBILITY.

OF DELICACY.

OF THE JE NE SCAIS QUOI.

THE PROGRESSION OF SURPRIZE.

OF BEAUTIES WHICH RESULT FROM AN EMBARRASSMENT OF THE SOUL.

THE TEMPLE OF GNIDUS.

THE PREFACE.

CANTO I.

CANTO II.

CANTO III.

CANTO IV.

CANTO V.

CANTO VI.

CANTO VII.

CUPID DISTRESSED.

LYSIMACHUS.

THE ANALYSIS OF THE SPIRIT OF LAWS. By M. D’ALEMBERT.

A DEFENCE OF THE SPIRIT OF LAWS. To which are added, SOME EXPLANATIONS.

PART I.

I.

OBJECTION I.

THE ANSWER.

OBJECTION II.

THE ANSWER.

OBJECTION III.

THE ANSWER.

II.

OBJECTION I.

THE ANSWER.

OBJECTION II.

ANSWER.

OBJECTION III.

ANSWER.

OBJECTION IV.

ANSWER.

OBJECTION V.

ANSWER.

OBJECTION VI.

ANSWER.

OBJECTION VII.

ANSWER.

OBJECTION VIII.

ANSWER.

OBJECTION IX.

ANSWER.

OBJECTION X.

ANSWER.

PART II.

THE GENERAL IDEA.

OF THE COUNSELS OF RELIGION.

OF POLYGAMY.

ON CLIMATE.

OF TOLERATION.

OF CELIBACY.

A PARTICULAR ERROR COMMITTED BY THE CRITIC.

OF MARRIAGE.

OF USURY.

“OF MARITIME USURY.

PART III.

SOME EXPLANATIONS OF THE SPIRIT OF LAWS.

I.

II.

ANSWER.