Research Catalog

Title

Essays of Michael, Lord of Montaigne / written by him in French and done into English by John Florio.

Author

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592

Publication

Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1902-1904.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Florio, John, 1553?-1625
• Florio, John, 1553?-1625,
• Houghton Mifflin Company publisher.
• Ives, George Burnham, 1856-1930
• Ives, George Burnham, 1856-1930,
• Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.) printer.
• Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957

Description

3 v. : ports., facsims.; 37 cm.

Uniform Title

Essais. English

Alternative Title

• Essais.
• Essayes, or morall, politike, and militarie discourses of Lord Michael de Montaigne, knight of the noble Order of St. Michael and one of the gentlemen in ordinary of the French kings chamber
• Essays of Montaigne

Subject

• Philosophy > 16th century

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – Massachusetts – Cambridge – 1902.
• Typefaces (Type evidence), – Montaigne.

Note

• Edited by George B. Ives.
• Each title and frontispiece within an ornamental border; device of Bruce Rogers on verso of last leaf in each volume.
• "Two hundred and sixty-five copies printed at the Riverside Press."
• "Designed by Bruce Rogers"--Blumenthal. The printed book in America.
• In the main a reprint of the 3d ed., London 1632.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography of the essays, by George B. Ives: v. 3, p. 415-492.

Indexed In (note)

• Work of Bruce Rogers,
• Warde, F. Bruce Rogers,
• Warde, F. Bruce Rogers,

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Booke I: .^
• By divers meanes men come unto a like end ; Of sadnesse or sorrowe ; Our affections are transported beyond our selves ; How the soule dischargeth her passions upon false objects, when the true faile it ; Whether the captaine of a place besieged ought to sallie forth to parlie ; That the houre of parlies is dangerous ; That our intention judgeth our actions ; Of idlenesse ; Of lyers ; Of readie or slow speech ; Of prognostications ; Of constancie ; Of ceremonies in the enterview of kings ; Men are punished by too-much opiniating themselves in a place without reason ; Of the punishment of cowardise ; A tricke of certaine ambassadors ; Of feare ; That we should not judge of our happinesse, untill after our death ; That to philosophie, is to learne how to die ; Of the force of imagination ; The profit of one man is the dammage of another ; Of custome,^
• and how a received law should not easily be changed ; Divers events from one selfe same counsell ; Of pedantisme ; Of the institution and education of children : to the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson ; It is follie to referre truth or falshood to our sufficiencie ; Of friendship ; Nine and twentie sonnets of Steven de la Boetie : to the Lady of Grammont, Countesse of Guissen ; Of moderation ; Of the caniballes ; That a man ought soberly to meddle with judging of divine lawes ; To avoid voluptuousnesse in regard of life ; That fortune is often times met withall in pursuit of reason ; Of a defect in our policies ; Of the use of apparell ; Of Cato the Younger ; How we weepe and laugh at one selfe-same thing ; Of solitarinesse ; A consideration upon Cicero ; That the taste of goods or evils doth greatly depend on the opinion we have of them ; That a man should not communicate his glorie ; Of the inequalitie that is betweene us ; Of sumptuarie lawes,^
• or lawes for moderating of expences ; Of sleeping ; Of the battell of Dreux ; Of names ; Of the uncertaintie of our judgement ; Of Steeds called French Destriers ; Of ancient customes ; Of Democritus and Heraclitus ; Of the vanitie of words ; Of the parcimonie of our forefathers ; Of a saying of Cæsar ; Of vaine subtilties, or subtill devices ; Of smels and odors ; Of praiers and orisons ; Of age -- Editors notes to Book I / by George B. Ives --
• Booke II: Of the inconstancie of our actions ; Of drunkennesse ; A custome of the the Ile of Cea ; To morrow is a new day ; Of conscience ; Of exercise or practice ; Of the recompences or rewards of honour ; Of the affection of fathers to their children : to the Lady of Estissac ; Of the Parthians Armes ; Of bookes ; Of crueltie ; An Apologie of Raymond Sebond ; Of judging of others death ; How that our spirit hindereth it selfe ; That our desires are encreased by difficultie ; Of glory ; Of presumption ; Of giving the lie ; Of the liberty of conscience ; We taste nothing purely ; Against idlenesse, or doing nothing ; Of running posts, or curriers ; Of bad meanes emploied to a good end ; Of the Roman greatnesse ; How a man should not counterfeit to be sicke ; Of thumbs ; Cowardize the mother of crueltie ; All things have their season ; Of vertue ; Of a monstrous childe ; Of anger and choler ; A defence of Seneca and Plutarke ; The historie of Spurina ; Observations concerning the meanes to warre after the maner of Julius Cæsar ; Of three good women ; Of the worthiest and most excellent men ; Of the resemblance betweene children and fathers -- Editors notes to Book II / by George B. Ives --
• Booke III: Of profit and honesty ; Of repenting ; Of three commerces or societies ; Of diverting and diversions ; Upon some verses of Virgil ; Of coaches ; Of the incommoditie of greatness ; Of the art of conferring ; Of vanitie ; How one ought to governe his will ; Of the lame or crippel ; Of phisiognomy ; Of experience -- Editors notes to Book III / by George B. Ives -- Bibliography of the essays / by George B. Ives.

LCCN

^^^03000161^

OCLC

3813281

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library