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As in all of his essays, Montaigne eloquently employed many references and quotes from classical Greek and Roman authors, especially Lucretius. Montaigne considered marriage necessary for the raising of children, but disliked the strong feelings of romantic love as being detrimental to freedom. One of his quotations is: "Marriage is like a cage ...
Essays by Montaigne at Quotidiana.org; The Charles Cotton translation of some of Montaigne's Essays: plain text version by Project Gutenberg; Essays English audio by Librivox; The complete, searchable text of the Villey-Saulnier edition from the ARFTL project at the University of Chicago (in French) Montaigne Studies at the University of Chicago
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).
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.
The tradition begins with the Essais of Michel de Montaigne (1580), but its heyday was the late 17th century. [ 1 ] Although the moralists wrote essays and pen-portraits , their preferred genre was the maxim.
Campen and colleagues at the University of New Mexico tested samples of liver, kidney, and brain tissues from people who had died and underwent autopsy in 2016 and in 2024. That included a total ...
The International Criminal Court pushed back against sanctions levied by President Donald Trump, saying Friday the move threatens to "erode international rule of law," and calling for a united front.
In 1943, Screech entered University College London to read French but after a language aptitude test, he was sent to the secret Bedford Japanese School run by Captain Oswald Tuck RN. He was in the 8th course at Bedford (October 1944 to April 1945), and after completing it he was posted to the Wireless Experimental Centre , Delhi, India, which ...