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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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...ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF ... ...7 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 A P A P A ... ... ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ... in any way. Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...ssays: Book the First ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 PREF PREF ... ... having sent before a good strong party of his archers and slingers to be- gin the skirmish, and these being routed and hotly pursued by the enemy, wh...

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...ld the present generation say to the odd little contrivances in the way of cotton sun-bonnets, check pinafores, list tippets, and print capes, and oth...

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... Skinner came in. “I’d like thomething a little comforting,” he said, “‘ot gin and water’th about my figure,” and every- body began to tell him things... ...idents are at large. But Skinner, standing at the bar and drinking his hot gin and water, with one eye roving over the things at the back of the bar a... ...tic.” Cossar was continually more wonderful. He produced great handfuls of cotton wool and stuffed them in his ears— Bensington wondered why. Then he ... ...loane Street. (It didn’t do even to think of Cousin Jane.) His legs became cotton strands, his feet lead. He wondered if any one would get them coffee... ...sing Eyebright valley. And then presently the traces of the Food would be- gin. The first striking thing was the great new viaduct at T onbridge, wher... ...ood medals and Anti-Boomfood flags, on the selvedges of Caterham silks and cottons and in the linings of Good Old English Caterham 135 H G Wells hats... ...in. There he stood, with his feet a little apart, his back to a big corner gin palace that towered twice his height and ended In a sky sign, staring d...

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...omes to meet us. After the sun is down and the west faded, the heavens be- gin to fill with shining stars. So, as we grow old, a sort of equable jog-t... ...ut in this paper. That spirit is truly En- glish; they, and not Tennyson’s cotton-spinners or Mr. D’Arcy Thompson’s Abstract Bagman, are the true and ...

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...rish of rhetoric. The second influence we speak of had a still poorer ori- gin: in the restless loud-rattling slightly-furnished head of one Jacob Dup... ... Dubois sends them back;—rains in mere fire and mad- ness. Our ‘redouts of cotton-bags’ are taken, retaken; Precy under his Fleur-de-lys is valiant as... ...Dubois-Crance, deaf as Destiny, stern as Doom, capturing their ‘redouts of cotton-bags;’ hemming them in, ever closer, with his Artillery-lava? Never ...

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...ge, old iron, old crockery, old clothes, civil and military, old rags, new cotton goods, flaming prints of saints, little looking glasses, and incalcu... ...lf drunken hags check themselves in the midst of pots of beer, or pints of gin, to drink to Mr. Field, and pressingly to ask the honour of his finishi...

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...tories high, and laden with most combustible goods, many thousand bales of cotton, wheat and oats in thousands of quarters, tar, tur- pentine, rum, gu... ... miles distant to the eastward, the whole air was illuminated by flakes of cotton, often satu- rated with rum, and by what seemed absolute worlds of b... ...aving reached the counter, he would then ask Marr for a pair of unbleached cotton socks. In a shop so small as Marr’s, there could be no great latitud... ...man:’ indeed all sectarianism, but especially that which has a modern ori- gin—arising and growing up within our own memories, unsupported by a grand ...

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...shop or furrowfield, grind fore-done at the wheel of Labour, like haltered gin-horses, if blind so much the quieter? Or they that in the Bicetre Hospi... ...le, it shall sub- sist with them; not otherwise. Rights of Man, printed on Cotton Handkerchiefs, in various dialects of human speech, pass over to the... ...other; and there forms itself a piled heap of corpses, and the kennels be- gin to run red. Fancy the yells of these men, their faces of sweat and bloo... ...af Dubois sends them back;—rains in mere fire and madness. Our ‘redouts of cotton- bags’ are taken, retaken; Precy under his Fleur-de-lys is val- iant... ...Dubois-Crance, deaf as Destiny, stern as Doom, capturing their ‘redouts of cotton- bags;’ hemming them in, ever closer, with his Artillery-lava? Never...

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...mattress, and wrapped himself up in a quilt, which in summer was always of cotton,—in autumn, of wool; at the setting-in of winter he used both—and ag... ...ger. He fell repeatedly, whilst reading, with his head into the candles; a cotton night-cap which he wore was instantly in a blaze, and flaming about ...

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...h him but an old newspaper con taining a handkerchief marked “B. G.,” one cotton sock marked “L. W. C.,” one woolen one marked “D. F .,” and a night ... ...hoo de storm en dug her up en got de golden arm; en he bent his head down ‘gin de ‘win, en plowed en plowed en plowed thoo de snow. Den all on a sudde...

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...ables was written by Lord Bryant. Edgar A. Poe was a very curdling writer. Cotton Mather was a writer who invented the cotten gin and wrote histories.... ...a very curdling writer. Cotton Mather was a writer who invented the cotten gin and wrote histories. Beowulf wrote the Scriptures. Ben Johnson survived...

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...s unfathomable—about his mouth there played an inscrutable smile. He had a cotton um- brella, and old trousers, and old boots, and an old wig, curling... ...th in Saintyleany, the artful dodges who wish to smother Europe with their cotton, and can’t sleep or rest heasy for henvy and hatred of the great inw... ...after an arjus day at the House of Commons, solazes himself with a glas of gin-and-water (the national beveridge), with cheerful 62 Thackeray convers... ...ould frequinly propoase gininwater to the company), and who drinks so much gin?” asked Munseer Chacabac of a friend from the “Hotel de l’Ail.” 63 Bur... ...r—this Lor Y ardham. He smokes, ’tis to conceal his countenance; he drinks gin, ’tis to hide his face in the goblet. And be sure, he carries every wor... ...ing Lord Y ardham’s cortasy, he returned it by or- dering another glass of gin at his own expence, and they both drank it on the counter, where Jools ... ..., (which I knew it very well, having often seen her take a glass of hojous gin along 91 Burlesques with her Bohee), and so I was ableeged to horder F... ... Hann was sulky. She said it was my losing the umberella. If it had been a cotton velvet umbrella I could have understood. James Hangelo sittn on my k... ... men dressed in old nightgowns, with knock-knees, and dirty flesh- colored cotton stockings, and dabs of brick-dust on their wrinkled old chops, and t...

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...ure hollow Chinese monstrosity ornamented with Mr. Stiggins’s plug hat and cotton umbrella by its anxious grandmother—the State. Frankly, is it not ti... ...f a colossal body. As her boasted military force that, corrupt in its ori- gin, has ever struck no other but faltering blows, so her soul, kept benumb...

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...ns, or Bread studies ( Brodzwecke), preappointed us? Here, circling like the gin horse, for whom partial or total blindness is no evil, the Bread arti... ...wn five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows’ meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they called their Flag; which, had you sold it at any marke... ...r than the terrestrial gift of Steam is to the Steam engine; a power whereby cotton might be spun, and money and money’s worth realized. “Notable enou... ... “The name Poor Slaves seems to indicate a Slavonic, Polish, or Russian ori gin: not so, however, the interior essence and spirit of their Superstiti...

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...ulking and malingering. Society will then be something not wholly unlike a cotton plantation in the old days; with cheerful, careless, demoralised sla... ...l it forth. Already in our society as it exists, the bourgeois is too much cottoned about for any zest in living; he sits in his parlour out of reach ... ... things to think about, he would be living indeed– not lying in a box with cotton, safe, but immeasurably dull. The aleatory, whether it touch life, o... ...s purse for porter and toasted cheese at Ambrose’s, or cranberry tarts and gin- ger-wine at Doull’s. Duelling was still a possibility; so much so that... ...hen he was really wanted, that, after an awkward pause, Macbeth had to be- gin his apostrophe to empty air. The arrival of the belated spectre in the ... ... the causeway, between the two black pools, where, at every yard or two, a gin, a pitfall, or a snare awaits the passer-by– loath- some white devilkin...