Montaigne The Essays - 3 Author:Michel de Montaigne Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1897 Original Publisher: G. P. Putnam's sons Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.co... more »m where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Page 347. What can I till? F.'s translation of M.'s famous motto, "Que s; ay-ie?" -- -What do I know? As M. goes on to say, this sentence was often used by him attached to the device of a pair of scales. 348. Note how . . . unhalloived speech. M. refers back to the discussion of the question, "God cannot do this or that." -- Caitc. 350. all one, more or less. 350. penult. A full stop is needed before "because," and consequently no break is required between "charge us" and "Strato." 350. Strata, A; State, B and C. 351. Piramide, A; -Pyramis, B and C. 352. that honest -woman Faustina: said in irony. -- Duval, 352. a cocke-horse: "a la chevremorte," M. He who is carried "a la chevremorte" is laid upon the back of him who carries, embracing his neck, and placing his thighs and legs round his body. -- Coste. With heeles or belly upwards -- Cotgrave. 352. as many Temples as, more Temples than. 353. -willyou not, i. e., you will not. 354. tuhich is more? An assertion, not a question. 354. Let us raise . . . amplijie, Let us extend, raise, and amplify. 354. s-well and s-well againe. The word is repeated three times in M. 355. Senh, A ; Sina, B and C. 355. should heavenly fay her her ivages, i. e., should give her a heavenly reward. 356. No break is needed between " race " and " It was," 357. these ancient conclusions, i. e., those that follow. 358. Gods never acted . , . but for man. Cf. Pope's Essay on Man, I. v. 361. -we remember not, i. e., do we not remember. 361. the Sun, the heavens and the sun. 361. and stone, or, with Anaxagora...« less