Works of Michael De Montaigne - 1 Author:Bayle St. John Subtitle: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters, With Notes From All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, Etc Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1866 Original Publisher: Hurd and Houghton Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / European / ... more »French 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.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VH. THAT THE INTENTION IS JUDGE OP OUR ACTIONS. 'Tis a saying, that death discharges us of all our obligations. However, I know some who have taken ., . . Whether death it in another sense. Henry VII., kino; of discharges us of an obligation. England, articled with Don Philip, son to Maximilian the emperor, or, to give him the more honourable title, father to the Emperor Charles V., that the said Philip should deliver up into his hands the Duke of Suffolk, of the "White Rose, his mortal enemy, who was fled into the Low Countries ; which Philip (not knowing how to evade it) accordingly promised to do, but upon condition, nevertheless, that Henry should attempt nothing against the We of the said duke, which during his own life the king kept to; but, coming to die, in his last will, he commanded his son to put him to death immediately after his decease.1 And lately, in the tragedy that the Duke of Alva presented to us at Brussels, in the persons of Count Egmont and Horne, there were many very remarkable passages; and one amongst the rest, that Count Egmont, upon the security of whose word and faith Count Horne had come and surrendered himself to the Duke of Alva, earnestly entreated that he might first mount the scaffold, to the end that death might disengage him from the obligation he had passed to the other. In these...« less