Montaigne's Essays in Three Books With Notes and Quotations. and an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1743 Excerpt: ... dt Artt Peetica, to to know him, he had taken a Design like this of mine, to commit his Thoughts to Writing, we should have seen a great many rare Things, and such as would have gone very near to have rivall'd the best. Writings of Antiquity: For in natural Parts especially, I know no Man comparable to him. But. he has left nothing behind him, fave this Treatife only, (ajid that too by Chance, for I believe he never faw it after it first went out of his Hands) and some Observations upon that Edict of January, made famous by our Civil Wars, which also shall elsewhere peradventure sind a Place. These were all I could recover of his Remains; I, to whom, with so assectionate a Remembrance, upon his Death-bed, he by his last Will bequeath'd his Library and Papers, the little Book of his Works only excepted, which I committed to the Press. And this particular Obligation I have to this Treatife of his, that it was the Occasion of my sirst coming acquainted with him for it was shew'd to me long before I had the good Fortune to know him, and gave me the sirst Knowledge of his Name J proving so the sirst Cause and Foundation of a Friendship, which he afterward improv'd, and maintain'd so long as God was pleas'd to continue us together so perfect, inviolate, and entire, that certainly the like is hardly to be sound in Story, and amongst the Men of this Age, there is no Sign nor Trace of any such Thing in Use; so much Concurrence is requir'd to the Building of such a one, that 'tis much if Fortune bring it but once to pass in three Ages. There is nothing to which Nature? seems so much to have inclin'd as to Society; and Aristotle fays, that the good Legislators had more Respect to Friendship, than to Justice. Now the most su-pea p-J preme Point of it's Persection is t...