THE WORKS OF MICHEL de MONTAIGNE

With Notes, Life and Letters
Complete in Ten Volumes

POPE LEO X. TAKING HIS LAST FAREWELL TO RAPHAEL. From Painting by Pietro Michis.

THE WORKS OF MICHEL deMONTAIGNE

an essay by RALPH WALDO EMERSON

illustrated

EDWIN C. HILL

new york.

EMERSON EDITION

Ten Hundred and Fifty Copies have been printed

Number

Pope Leo X. taking his last farewell to Raphael. From painting by Pietro Michis. ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE
translated by CHARLES COTTON
revised by WILLIAM CAREW HAZLETT
VOLUME ONE
New York: edwin c. hill mcmx

Copyright 1910 by

EDWIN C. HILL

CONTENTS

                        

Essay by Emerson	11
Preface	53
By Different Methods Men Arrive at the Same End	69
Of Sorrow	78
Our Affections Carry Themselves Beyond Us	84
How the Soul Expends its Passions upon False Objects, when the True are Missed	100
Whether the Governor of a Place Besieged ought to go out to Parley	105
The Hour of Parley Dangerous	111
That the Intention is Judge of our Actions	116
Of Idleness	119
Of Liars	121
Of Quick or Slow Speech	133
Of Prognostications	137
Of Constancy	146
Ceremony of the Interview of Kings	151
Men are Punished for being Obstinate in the Defence of a Fort without Reason	155
Of the Punishment of Cowardice	157
A Trait of some Ambassadors	160
Of Fear	168
That we are not to Judge of our Hour till after Death	174
That to Philosophise is to learn to Die	179
Of the Force of Imagination	214
The Profit of one Man is the Loss of Another	239
Of Custom, and of not Changing a Received Law	240

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    

Pope Leo X. Taking His Last Farewell to Raphael. From Painting by Pietro Michis	Frontispiece
Love Guides Us. From Painting by I. Spiridon	Page 82
Adoration of Dionysius. From Painting by C. A. Geiger	Page 162
The Music Master. From Painting by F. Andreotti	Page 242