THE WORKS OF MICHEL de MONTAIGNE

With Notes, Life and Letters
Complete in Ten Volumes

Hector approaching Paris. From painting by Diogene-Ulysse-Napoleon-Maillart.

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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Hector approaching Paris. From painting by Diogene-Ulysse-Napoleon-Maillart. ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE
translated by CHARLES COTTON
revised by WILLIAM CAREW HAZLETT
VOLUME SIX
New York: edwin c. hill mcmx

Copyright 1910 by

EDWIN C. HILL

CONTENTS

                    

How our Mind Hinders Itself	11
That our Desires are Augmented by Difficulty	13
Of Glory	25
Of Presumption	53
Of Giving the Lie	119
Of Liberty of Conscience	128
We Taste Nothing Pure	137
Against Idleness	143
Of Posting	152
Of Ill Means Employed to a Good End	155
Of the Roman Greatness	162
Not to Counterfeit the Sick Man	165
Of Thumbs	170
Cowardice the Mother of Cruelty	172
All Things have their Season	192
Of Virtue	196
Of a Monstrous Child	212
Of Anger	215
Defence of Seneca and Plutarch	230
The Story of Spurnia	244

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    

Hector Reproaching Paris. From Painting by Diogene-Ulysse-Napoleon-Maillart	Frontispiece
Offering to Minerva. From Painting by H. De Gaudemaris	Page 50
Andromache in Captivity. From Painting by Sir Frederick Leighton	Page 172
Cleopatra. From Painting by H. Makart	Page 246