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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...f a Defect in our Policies XXXV. Of the Use of Apparell XXXVI. Of Cato the younger XXXVII. How we weepe and laugh at one selfe-same thing XXXVIII. Of ... ...all the burthen and honour of his house; and shortly after tidings of his younger brothers decease, who was his second hope; and having with an unma... ... to the qualitie and interest each one bare for the death of so faire, so young and innocent a Lady, having ransacked the utmost skill and effects o... ...defaced, for the pleasure his mother had received in the same. When I was young, my countrimen were wont to say, That one of our neigbbour- Kings, h... ...us answered one that counted the King of Persia happy, because being very young the garland of so mightie and great a dominion: 'yea but said he, Pr... ...n eternal conduict, L'une suit l'autre, et l'une l'autre fuit. Par cette-cy, celle-la est Poussée, Et cette-cy, par I'autre est devancée: Tousjour...

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