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The Essays of Montaigne

First published in 1686; from the edition revised and edited in 1877 by William Carew Hazlitt

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  • The Letters of Montaigne
  • Chapter XXXIV. Means to carry on a war according to Julius Caesar.
  • Chapter I. Of Profit and Honesty.
  • Chapter II. Of Repentance.
  • Chapter III. Of Three Commerces.
  • Chapter IV. Of Diversion.
  • Chapter V. Upon Some verses of Virgil.
  • Chapter VI. Of Coaches.
  • Chapter VII. Of the Inconvenience of Greatness.
  • Chapter VIII. Of the Art of Conference.
  • Chapter IX. Of Vanity.
  • Chapter X. Of Managing the Will.
  • Chapter XI. Of Cripples.
  • Chapter XII. Of Physiognomy.
  • Chapter XIII. Of Experience.
  • ↑ Translator John Florio

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