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Essays of Montaigne

Essays (1580--1588)

• HTML edition divided into essays (Boise State)
  -- Twenty-One Essays by Montaigne - see list below.
  -- Translated by Charles Cotton.
  
• HTML edition divided into essays (Adelaide)
  -- Twenty-One Essays by Montaigne - see list below.
  -- Translated by Charles Cotton. Includes the following essays: "Of custom, and that we should not easily change a law received", "Of the education of children", "That fortune is oftentimes observed to act by the rules of reason", "Of cannibals", "Of war-horses, or destriers", "Of Democritus and Heraclitus", "Of age", "Of drunkenness", "Of glory", "Of presumption", "That we taste nothing pure", "Of thumbs", "Upon the resemblance of children to their fathers", "Of repentance", "Upon some verses of Virgil", "Of coaches", "That to study philosophy is to learn to die", "Of vanity", "Of physiognomy", "Of the force of Imagination", and "Of experience".
  -- A small fraction of Montaigne's 107 essays.
  
• HTML editions of a few essays (Stickles)
  -- Includes five essays, three of them not in the above list: "Of pedantry", "That it is folly to measure truth and error by our own capacity", and "That the relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them."
  

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