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2. Essays (Montaigne) - Wikipedia

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   Montaigne wrote in a seemingly conversational or informal style that combines a highly literate vocabulary with popular sayings and local slang. The earlier essays are more formal and structured and sometimes quite short ("Of prognostications"), but later essays, and revisions to the essays in later editions, are longer and more complex.

3. Essays (Montaigne) - Bordeaux copy - Wikipedia

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   The Bordeaux copy of the Essays is a 1588 edition of Michel de Montaigne's Essais held by the Bibliothèque municipale de Bordeaux. [1]The book contains about 1300 manuscript corrections and annotations made by Montaigne between the summer of 1588 and the 13 September 1592 (date of his death).

4. William Cornwallis (died 1614) - Wikipedia

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   Cornwallis's essays, meditative in tone, cover such topics as ambition, resolution, youth, essays and books, and humility. [2] Like Montaigne's essays, they focus on self-analysis and self-improvement. [6] His is the earliest surviving essay attempting a defence of Richard III. His essays were popular during his lifetime and retained popularity ...

5. Essay - Wikipedia

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   Essays of Michel de Montaigne. An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.

6. Michel de Montaigne - Wikipedia

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   The coat of arms of Michel Eyquem, Lord of Montaigne. Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne (/ m ɒ n ˈ t eɪ n / mon-TAYN; [4] French: [miʃɛl ekɛm də mɔ̃tɛɲ]; Middle French: [miˈʃɛl ejˈkɛm də mõnˈtaɲə]; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592 [5]), commonly known as Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance.

7. Of Cannibals - Wikipedia

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   Of Cannibals (Des Cannibales), written circa 1580, is an essay, one of those in the collection Essays, by Michel de Montaigne, describing the ceremonies of the Tupinambá people in Brazil. In particular, he reported about how the group ceremoniously ate the bodies of their dead enemies as a matter of honor.

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9. Fortunat Strowski - Wikipedia

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   In 1906 Strowski produced an edition of Montaigne's Essays based upon the Bordeaux copy (a copy of the fifth edition, with additions in Montaigne's own hand, preserved in the Bordeaux City Library), rather than the posthumously published 1595 edition of the Essays.