1776 ENGLISH Essays of Michel Montaigne French Renaissance Philosophy Humanism

1776 ENGLISH Essays of Michel Montaigne French Renaissance Philosophy Humanism

First published in 1580, the Essays of Michel de Montaigne were a collection of essays and writings on a variety of topics and content. Montaigne was rather decisive in his rhetoric and used various Ancient Greek, Latin, and Italian texts as examples and references, such as Lucretius and Plutarch quotations. Montaigne himself stated that the goal of his essays was to describe man with ‘utter frankness and honesty.’ According to the scholar Paul Oskar Kristeller,

“the writers of the period were keenly aware of the miseries and ills of our earthly existence.”

Montaigne sought to break man down into his basic features, which, at the time, was extreme volatility. He wrote on marriage being an absolute necessity for raising children, but he also quoted, in the ‘Essays,’ that “Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out”.

This 1776 English edition was taken from the Pierre Coste French edition.

Item number: #19490

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MONTAIGNE, Michel de

The essays : of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, translated into English. The eighth edition

London : printed for J. Pote, E. Ballard, 1776.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes
  • I – [34], 414, [24]
  • II – [4], 608, [32]
  • III – [4], 468, [28]
• Provenance:
  • Armorial bookplate – Jn^o. Lowes, Esq^r.
    • John Lowes of Ridley Hall was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1790, shortly before his death in 1795. Motto: DULCES, ANTE OMNIA MUSÆ
  • Bookplate – George Bernard Rust
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~8.25in X 5.25in (21cm x 13.5cm)

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