THE WORKS OF MICHEL de MONTAIGNE

With Notes, Life and Letters
Complete in Ten Volumes

The Seraglio. From painting by Jean Leon Gerome.

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 _____

The Seraglio. From painting by Jean Leon Gerome. ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE
translated by CHARLES COTTON
revised by WILLIAM CAREW HAZLETT
VOLUME SEVEN
New York: edwin c. hill mcmx

Copyright 1910 by

EDWIN C. HILL

CONTENTS

         

Observation on the Method of Julius Cæsar in Making War	11
Of Three Good Women	29
Of the Most Excellent Men	45
Of the Resemblance of Children to the Fathers	59
Of Judging of the Death of Another	122
Of Utility and Honesty	135
Of Repentance	168
Of Three Employments	198
Of Diversion	224

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    

The Seraglio. From Painting by Jean Leon Gerome	Frontispiece
Diogenes in Search of an Honest Man. From Painting by Salvatore Rosa	Page 60
Sphinx. From Painting by Auguste Raynaud	Page 152
Sunshine. From Painting by E. Fontana	Page 222