Complete Essays of Montaigne
By: Montaigne, Seigneur de Michel Eyquem
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1958
Language: eng
Number of pages: 908
ISBN-13: 9780804780773
Subjects: Translations into English; French essays
Description: Presents the complete essays of the 16th century French aristocrat and Renaissance scholar, the first and most influential example of deliberately personal observation, covering a vast array of topics and merging intellectual speculation with casual anecdote and autobiography.
Table of contents: title: To the reader (1580); title: By diverse means we arrive at the same end (1578-80); title: Of sadness (1572-74); title: Our feelings reach out beyond us (1572-74); title: How the soul discharges its passions on false objects when the true are wanting (1572-74); title: Whether the governor of a besieged place should go out to parley (1572-74); title: Parley time is dangerous (1572-74); title: That intention is judge of our actions (1572-74); title: Of idleness (1572-74); title: Of liars (1572-74); title: Of prompt or slow speech (1572-74); title: Of prognostications (1572-74); title: Of constancy (1572-74); title: Ceremony of interviews between kings (1572-74); title: Of the affection of fathers for their children (1578-80); title: Of arms of the Parthians (1578-80).; title: Of books (1578-80); title: Of cruelty (1578-80); title: Apology for Raymond Sebond (1575-76, 1578-80) : Sebond and his book; title: First objection to Sebond : defense; title: First objection to Sebond : conclusion; title: Second objection to Sebond : the objectors; title: Second objection to Sebond : defense; title: Counterattack : the vanity of man and of man's knowledge without God; title: Man is no better than the animals; title: Man's knowledge cannot make him happy; title: Man's knowledge cannot make him good; title: Man has no knowledge; title: Warning to the princess; title: Man can have no knowledge; title: The Senses are inadequate; title: Changing man cannot know changing things; title: Changing man cannot know unchanging God; title: Conclusion : man is nothing without God.; title: Of judging of the death of others (1572-80); title: How our mind hinders itself (1575-76); title: That our desire is increased by difficulty (1575-76); title: Of glory (1578-80); title: Of presumption (1578-80); title: Of giving the lie (1578-80); title: Of freedom of conscience (1578-80); title: We taste nothing pure (1578-80); title: Against do-nothingness (1578-80); title: Of riding post (1578-80); title: Of evil means employed to a good end (1578-80); title: Of the greatness of Rome (1578-80); title: Not to counterfeit being sick (1578-80); title: Of thumbs (1578-80); title: Cowardice, mother of cruelty (1578-80); title: All things have their season (1578-80); title: Of virtue (1578-80); title: Of a monstrous child (1578-80); title: Of anger (1578-80).; title: Defense of Seneca and Plutarch (1578-80); title: The Story of Spurina (1578-80); title: Observations on Julius Caesar's methods of making war (1578- 80); title: Of three good women (1578-80); title: Of the most outstanding men (1578- 80); title: Of the resemblance of children to fathers (1579-80).