The Complete Essays of Montaigne
Contributors: Donald Frame (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: June 1, 1958
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 908
ISBN-13: 9780804704854
Subjects: Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Essays; Literary Collections / Essays
First sentence: The commonest way of softening the hearts of those we have offended, when, vengeance in hand, they hold us at their mercy, is by submission to move them to commiseration and pity.