THE WORKS OF MICHEL de MONTAIGNE

With Notes, Life and Letters
Complete in Ten Volumes

Diana at the Bath. From painting by Jean-Francois Detroy.

THE WORKS OF MICHEL deMontaigne

an essay by RALPH WALDO EMERSON

illustrated

EDWIN C. HILL

new york.

EMERSON EDITION

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Number 137

Diana at the Bath. From painting by Jean-Francois Detroy. ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE
translated by CHARLES COTTON
revised by WILLIAM CAREW HAZLETT
VOLUME EIGHT
New York: edwin c. hill mcmx

Copyright 1910 by

EDWIN C. HILL

CONTENTS

    

Upon some Verses of Virgil	11
Of Coaches	133
Of the Inconvenience of Greatness	173
Of the Art of Conferring	184

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    

Diana at the Bath. From Painting by Jean-Francois Detroy	Frontispiece
Wooing. From Painting by F. Andreotti	Page 46
Summer. From Painting by II. Makart	Page 132
Psyche Beaten with Birches by Order of Venus. From Painting by Adolphe Weber	Page 180