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A book has been termed "the home traveller's ship or horse," and libraries, "the wardrobes of literature." Another favorite phrase is Montaigne's, "'Tis the best viaticum for this human journey," a phrase paralleled by the Rabbinic use of the Biblical "provender for the way." "The aliment of youth, the comfort of old age," so Cicero terms books.
The time you leave behind was no more yours than that which was before your birth, and concerns you no more. No further comment is needed to prove that Hamlet's and Montaigne's thoughts are in so close a connection that it cannot be a mere accident. And the nearer we come to the conclusion of the drama, the more striking become Shakspere's satirical hits.
Now a poet, like Montaigne's naked philosopher, is all face; and the bewilderment of his masked and muffled critics is the greater. Wherever he attracts general attention he cannot but be misunderstood.
Thus, Margaret of Navarre wrote books with great acclamation, and no one, seemingly, saw fit to call her conduct in question; but Mademoiselle de Gournay, Montaigne's adopted daughter, was in a controversy with the world as to whether a woman might be an author without incongruity.
38: We do not doubt that this is a sly thrust at Florio, who, in the preface to his translation, calls himself 'Montaigne's Vulcan, who hatches out Minerva from that 'Jupiter's bigge brain'. 39: Florio, 476. 40: Florio, 592: 'Thus goe the world, and so goe men. 43: Clarendon: 'Circumstance of thought' means here the details over which thought ranges, and from which its conclusions are formed.
He declares himself all the more ashamed of, and vexed by, this, as his own family were allied by close private ties with the English nation. An attempt has been made to show that in Montaigne's 'Apologie de Raymond Sebond, in which he expounds his theological opinions in the most explicit manner, a hidden attack is contained upon the Church.
As impulses are formed from habits, so the regularity of De Montaigne's habits made his impulses virtuous and just, and he yielded to them as often as a hasty character might have done; but then those impulses never urged to anything speculative or daring. De Montaigne could not go beyond a certain defined circle of action.
De Montaigne, who had been long, though not intimately, acquainted with the deceased, took upon himself all the necessary arrangements, and superintended the funeral; after which ceremony, Howard returned to London; and in Paris, as in the grave, all things are forgotten! But still in De Montaigne's breast there dwelt a horrible fear.
In some later editions of this author, it has been attempted to remedy this inconvenience, but without observing that Montaigne's argument is rendered more feeble and obscure by such vain repetitions: it is a licence that ought not to be taken, because he who publishes the work of another, ought to give it as the other composed ft.
The hermit is the antipodes of the citizen; and no gods animate and inspire us like the Lares. One evening, after an absence from Paris of nearly a fortnight, at De Montaigne's villa, in the neighbourhood of St.
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