THE WORKS OF MICHEL de MONTAIGNE

With Notes, Life and Letters
Complete in Ten Volumes

Comment. From painting by Lorenzo Delleani.

THE WORKS OF MICHEL de MONTAIGNE

an essay by

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

illustrated

EDWIN C. HILL

new york.

EMERSON EDITION

Ten Hundred and Fifty Copies have been printed

Number

Comment. From painting by Lorenzo Delleani. ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE
translated by CHARLES COTTON
revised by WILLIAM CAREW HAZLETT
VOLUME THREE
New York: edwin c. hill mcmx

Copyright 1910 by

EDWIN C. HILL

CONTENTS

                      

Of Solitude	11
A Consideration upon Cicero	35
That the Taste for Good and Evil Depends in Good Part upon the Opinion We have of Them	46
Not to Communicate One’s Glory	90
Of the Inequality which is between us	95
Of Sumptuary Laws	115
Of Sleeping	119
Of the Battle of Dreux	124
Of Names	127
Of the Uncertainty of our Judgment	138
Of Destriers	151
Of Ancient Customs	169
Of Democritus and Heraclitus	178
Of the Vanity of Words	185
Of the Parsimony of the Ancients	192
Of a Saying of Cæsar	194
Of Vain Subtelties	196
Of Perfumes	202
Of Prayers	207
Of Age	226
Of the Inconstancy of our Actions	232
Of Drunkenness	246

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    

Comment. From Painting by Lorenzo Delleani	Frontispiece
Sleeping. From Painting by C. E. Perugini	Page 118
Prayers. From Painting by Luis Falero	Page 206
Drunkenness. From Painting by Luigi Mussini	Page 246