montaigue

Updated: May 28, 2025

We might suppose the gentle latitudes and halcyon seas of Asia and the Mediterranean had failed to develop the sneeze, save that the immortal Montaigue, a friend in need to every reader, will point you that Aristotle told why the people bless a man who sneezes. "The gods bless you!" said the Athenian. "God bless you!" says the Irishman or Scotchman of to-day.

John McGovern - David Lockwin—The People's Idol

Yet it is obviously not its source but rather an imitation or variant indirectly drawn from a similar foundation story. Gonzalo's speech, too, follows pretty closely a passage in Florio's Montaigue. The first scene shows the storm in progress. Is there any clew given to the reader that it is a magic tempest?

Helen Archibald Clarke - Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies

He writes to his brother this year , "The Lutherans have images, and there are some in several places of England. Montaigue and others have proved that it is not idolatry to have recourse to the prayers of the Apostles and Martyrs." He explains himself afterwards much more strongly in favour of the Romish Church.

M. de (Jean Lévesque) Burigny - The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius: Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works