Montaigne

William Lucas Collins

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HANDBOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS ( Classixs iox$Qxâ%n Ijweafoersénglisfr EDITED BY MES OLIPHANT ?* He has found some admirers hisenthusiastic among own of the who hâvecountrymen présent day, patiently and hunted out record which couldperseveringly every be traced of himself and his Never,family. perhaps, • HIS FATHER. 5 in the case of our own hâve suchexcept Shakspeare, been taken to fromrecover,pains every possible source, the scattered memorials of a autlior. Eoremostpopular thèse hâve been Drainongst diligent inquirers Payen and M. Griïn. hâve succeeded in someThey correcting few mistakes about and somehim, supplying particulars of his but the additional informationfamily history; which hâve and some letters whichthey contributed, hâve been illustrate his briefrecently discovered, public life rather than the of the author.personality He was the third son of Pierre deEyquem, Seigneur —a moderate estate in acountryMontaigne Perigord, —district of the old of Guienne and also ofprovince other houses and lands known as La Beaure-Brousse, and Mattecoulon. He is inclined to think thegard, was and the name wasfamily originally English, says known there in his in which case itstill days, might hâve been or or Ockham. In Bor-Egham, Higham, had awhere the father also thedeaux, house, Eyquems were of and as thegood bourgeois rank, possibly, himself would of nobleEssayist gladly believe, origin.

Sujets

• Michel de Montaigne

Informations

• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 55
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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HANDBOUND
AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF
TORONTO PRESS(Classixs iox$Qxâ%n Ijweafoersénglisfr
EDITED BY
MES OLIPHANT
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ONTAIGNE—The Volumes this Séries contain-published of
I. DANTE, BytheEDiTOR.
E.IL B. Hamley.VOLTAIRE, By Major-General
Tulloch.III. PASCAL, . . By Principal
. HenryIV. C.B.PETRARCH, By Reeve,
V. . A.
.GOETHE, By Hayward, Q.C.
VI. . Mrs Oliphant and F. M.MOLIÈRE, A.By Tarver,
—In préparation
Walter Besant.RABELAIS, By
Andrew Wilson.SCHILLER, ByMONTAIGNE
BY THE
M.A.W. LUCAS COLLLNS,KEV.
AUTHOR OF
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' ETC.THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS,'ETONIANA,'
AND SONSBLACKWOODWILLIAM
AND LONDONEDINBURGH
MDCCCLXXIX
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2-i-i.SS-CONTENTS.
PAGECHAP.
1I. EARLY LIFE,
IN HIS 33II. THE ESSAYIST LIBRARY,
60III. MONTAIGNE ON HIS TRAVELS,
IN 83IV. OFFICE,
102V. THE ESSAYS,
164VI. CHARACTER,
180VII. VIEWS ON RELIGION,