Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16
Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16

Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16

Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16It is very easy to verify, that great authors, when...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16

Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16

Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16

$105.26 $52.61
Author: Montaigne, Michel de,1533-1592
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16

It is very easy to verify, that great authors, when they write of causes, not only make use of those they think to be the true causes, but also of those they believe not to be so, provided they have in them some beauty and invention: they speak true and usefully enough, if it be ingeniously. We cannot make ourselves sure of the supreme cause, and therefore crowd a great many together, to see if it may not accidentally be amongst them: Do you ask me, whence comes the custom of blessing those who sneeze? We break wind three several ways; that which sallies from below is too filthy; that which breaks out from the mouth carries with it some reproach of gluttony; the third is sneezing, which, because it proceeds from the head and is without offence, we give it this civil reception: do not laugh at this distinction; they say 'tis Aristotle's. I think I have seen in Plutarch' (who of all the authors I know, is he who has best mixed art with nature, and judgment with knowledge), his giving as a reason for the, rising of the stomach in those who are at sea, that it is occasioned by fear; having first found out some reason by which he proves that fear may produce such an effect. I, who am very subject to it, know well that this cause concerns not me; and I know it, not by argument, but by necessary experience. Without instancing what has been told me, that the same thing often happens in beasts, especially hogs, who are out of all apprehension of danger; and what an acquaintance of mine told me of himself, that though very subject to it, the disposition to vomit has three or four times gone off him, being very afraid in a violent storm, as it happened to that ancient: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 3596
Author: Montaigne, Michel de
Release Date: Nov 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913

Translator: Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687

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