The essayes Author:Michel de Montaigne Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: — " We picture Julius upon the battlefield of Gaul, Demosthenes in the council denouncing the Macedonian. Montaigne comes to our imagination seated in his tur... more »ret, now idly turning the leaves of a book, now looking over the wide and fruitful plain, or perhaps surprising an idle, serving man in his base-court.. Yet none worked harder than did Montaigne in his twenty years of seclusion, and though the library measured but sixteen paces, it was thejield of many a hard-fought Jight against ignorance and pedantry."" Charles Whibley in Literary Portraiti. chapter{Section 4THE ESSAYES MORALL, POLITIKE, AND MILITARIE DISCOVRSES LORD MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE, KNIGHT of The Noble Order Of Saint MICHAEL, and one of the Gentlemen in Ordinary of the French Kings Chamber. THE THIRD EDITION. Whereunto is now newly added an Index of the principall matters and personages mentioned in this Booke. LONDON Printed by M. Flesher, for Rich : Royston, in Ivie-Lane next the Exchequer Office. M DC XXXII VOL. I. (I chapter{Section 5TO THE MOST ROYAL AND RENOWMED MAIESTIE of the High-borne Princesse ANNA OF DENMARKE, by the Grace of God Queene of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, etc. .BEING with me, all of me is in your Royall possession, and whatsoever peeces of mine have heretofore, under other Starres passed the publike view, come now of right to be under the predomination of a Power, that both contain's all their perfections, and hath influences of a more sublime nature, I could not but also take in this part (whereof time had worn- out the edition) which the world hath long since had of mine, and lay it at your Sacred feet, as a memoriall of my devoted duty, and to shew that where I am, I must be all I am, and cannot s...« less