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Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Guy de MaupassantWidger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Guy de MaupassantThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the...
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Cupid's UnderstudyCupid's Understudy If Dad had been a coal baron, like Mr. Tudor Carstairs, or a stock-watering captain of industry, like Mrs. Sanderson-Spear's husband, or descended from a long line of whisky distillers, like Mrs. Carmichael Porter, why, then his little Elizabeth would have been...
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The CaptivesThe Captives "I confess that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible world may not in part depend on the personal response which any of us may make to the religious appeal. God Himself, in short, may draw vital strength...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteEssays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete The present publication is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literaturea library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be regarded as a classic, not only in the land of...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 19Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 19which is a means much more weak and cheap; but truth is so great a thing that we ought not to disdain any mediation that will guide us to it. Reason has so many forms that we...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 18Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 18Few things, in comparison of what commonly affect other men, move, or, to say better, possess me: for 'tis but reason they should concern a man, provided they do not possess him. I am very solicitous, both...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 17Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 17There is, peradventure, no more manifest vanity than to write of it so vainly. That which divinity has so divinely expressed to us["Vanity of vanities: all is vanity."Eccles., i. 2.]ought to be carefully and continually meditated by...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 16It 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,...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 15Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 15By how much profitable thoughts are more full and solid, by so much are they also more cumbersome and heavy: vice, death, poverty, diseases, are grave and grievous subjects. A man should have his soul instructed in...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 14Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 14I. Of Profit and Honesty. II. Of Repentance. III. Of Three Commerces. IV. Of Diversion. This does not concern me; mine slip from me with as little care as they are of little value, and 'tis the...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 13Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 13XXXII. Defence of Seneca and Plutarch. XXXIII. The story of Spurina. XXXIV. Means to carry on a war according to Julius Caesar. XXXV. Of three good women. XXXVI. Of the most excellent men. XXXVII. Of the resemblance...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 12Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 12XVIII. Of giving the lie. XIX. Of liberty of conscience. XX. That we taste nothing pure. XXI. Against idleness. XXII. Of Posting. XXIII. Of ill means employed to a good end. XXIV. Of the Roman grandeur. XXV....
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 11Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 11XIII. Of judging of the death of another. XIV. That the mind hinders itself. XV. That our desires are augmented by difficulty. XVI. Of glory. XVII. Of presumption. When we judge of another's assurance in death, which,...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 10Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 10VII. Of recompenses of honour. VIII. Of the affection of fathers to their children. IX. Of the arms of the Parthians. X. Of books. XI. Of cruelty. They who write the life of Augustus Caesar,[Suetonius, Life of...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 09Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 09I. Of the inconstancy of our actions. II. Of drunkenness. III. A custom of the Isle of Cea. IV. To-morrow's a new day. V. Of conscience. VI. Use makes perfect. Such as make it their business to...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 08Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 08XLVIII. Of war-horses, or destriers. XLIX. Of ancient customs. L. Of Democritus and Heraclitus. LI. Of the vanity of words. LII. Of the parsimony of the Ancients. LIII. Of a saying of Caesar. LIV. Of vain subtleties....
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 07Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 07XXXIX. A consideration upon Cicero. XL. That the relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon opinion. XLI. Not to communicate a man's honour. XLII. Of the inequality amongst us. XLIII. Of sumptuary laws....
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 06Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 06XXVII. Of friendship. XXVIII. Nine-and-twenty sonnets of Estienne de la Boetie. XXIX. Of moderation. XXX. Of cannibals. XXXI. That a man is soberly to judge of the divine ordinances. XXXII. That we are to avoid pleasures, even...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 05Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 05XXV. Of the education of children. XXVI. That it is folly to measure truth and error by our own capacity. I never yet saw that father, but let his son be never so decrepit or deformed, would...
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 04Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 04XXII. Of custom, and that we should not easily change a law received XXIII. Various events from the same counsel. XXIV. Of pedantry. He seems to me to have had a right and true apprehension of the...
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