MONTAIGNE / essays (Complete with Table of Contents)

MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS FOR KINDLE

Complete with Table of Contents

• Of a Monstrous Child


• Of Age


• Of Ancient Customs


• Of Anger


• Of Books


• Of Cannibals


• Of Coaches


• Of Conscience


• Of Constancy


• Of Cripples


• Of Cruelty


• Of Custom, and that We Should Not Easily Change a Law Received


• Of Diversion


• Of Drunkenness


• Of Experience


• Of Fear


• Of Friendship


• Of Giving the Lie


• Of Glory


• Of Idleness


• Of Ill Means Employed to a Good End


• Of Judging of the Death of Another


• Of Liars


• Of Liberty of Conscience


• Of Managing the Will


• Of Moderation


• Of Names


• Of One Defect in Our Government


• Of Pedantry


• Of Physiognomy


• Of Posting


• Of Prayers


• Of Presumption


• Of Profit and Honesty


• Of Prognostications


• Of Quick or Slow Speech


• Of Recompenses of Honour


• Of Repentance


• Of Sleep


• Of Smells


• Of Solitude


• Of Sorrow


• Of Sumptuary Laws


• Of the Affection of Fathers to Their Children


• Of the Art of Conference


• Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes


• Of the Education of Children


• Of the Force of Imagination


• Of the Inconstancy of Our Actions


• Of the Inconvenience of Greatness


• Of the Inequality Amoungst Us


• Of the Most Excellent Men


• Of the Parsimony of the Ancients


• Of the Punishment of Cowardice


• Of the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers


• Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment


• Of the Vanity of Words


• Of Three Commerces


• Of Three Good Women


• Of Thumbs


• Of Vain Subtleties


• Of Vanity


• Of Virtue


• Of War Horses, or Destriers




And you will find many, many other topics because this book contains Montaigne's complete essays. Imagine something important and it's very likely that Montaigne has written an essay about it.

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(Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays)

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(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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