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| Marguerite de Navarre | THE HEPTAMERON: Eighth Day — Marguerite de Navarre |
THE HEPTAMERON: Eighth Day “Thereupon he laid hold of her and threw her on the bed. His wife, who was left alone with the cross and the holy water, and who had not spoken for two days, began to cry out as wel…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Marguerite de Navarre | THE HEPTAMERON: First Day — Marguerite de Navarre |
THE HEPTAMERON: First Day “Consider, ladies, I beseech you, what disorders a wicked woman occasions, and how many mischiefs ensued from the sin of the one you have just heard of. Since Eve made Adam sin, it …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Marguerite de Navarre | THE HEPTAMERON: Fifth Day — Marguerite de Navarre |
THE HEPTAMERON: Fifth Day “This Jambicque used to inveigh loudly against illicit love; and if ever she saw that any gentleman was enamored with one of her companions, she used to reprimand the pair with grea…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Marguerite de Navarre | THE HEPTAMERON: Fourth Day — Marguerite de Navarre |
THE HEPTAMERON: Fourth Day “"I should like to know," returned Ennasuite, "if the Magdalen is not now in more honor among men than her sister who was a virgin?"…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Marguerite de Navarre | THE HEPTAMERON: Second Day — Marguerite de Navarre |
THE HEPTAMERON: Second Day “"I do not say that," replied Dagoucin, "for he who loves thoroughly would be more afraid of hurting the honor of his mistress than she herself. Hence it seems to me that a gracious…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Marguerite de Navarre | THE HEPTAMERON: Seventh Day — Marguerite de Navarre |
THE HEPTAMERON: Seventh Day “He had married a very good and virtuous lady, who had grown old after bearing him several children. He, too, was not young, and lived on peaceable and friendly terms with his wife.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Marguerite de Navarre | THE HEPTAMERON: Sixth Day — Marguerite de Navarre |
THE HEPTAMERON: Sixth Day “The Seigneur de Montmorency, who would rather have had a lady's hand than her glove, highly extolled his gallantry, and told him he was the most genuine lover he had ever seen, and…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Marguerite de Navarre | THE HEPTAMERON: Third Day — Marguerite de Navarre |
THE HEPTAMERON: Third Day “Left alone with Sister Marie, he began by lifting up her veil, and bidding her look in his face. Sister Marie replied, that her rule forbade her to look at men. "That is well said,…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Marguerite de Valois | Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois — Marguerite de Valois |
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois “As soon as I reached my own closet, I threw myself upon my knees and prayed to God to take me into his protection and save me; but from whom or what, I was ignorant. Hereupon the K…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Marguerite de Valois | Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Volume 2 — Marguerite de Valois |
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Volume 2 “I appeared to give way to their persuasions, and, after hearing mass and taking a hasty dinner, I left my lodgings, escorted by two or three hundred armed citizens, some of them en…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Marguerite de Valois | The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, V3 — Marguerite de Valois |
The Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, V3 “(The additional work here is the history of the House of Valois from its earliest days.)…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Marguerite de Valois | The Entire Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois — Marguerite de Valois |
The Entire Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois “However, his words inspired me with resolution and powers I did not think myself possessed of before. I had naturally a degree of courage, and, as soon as I recovered from my aston…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V1 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V1 “First volume contains several letters to various persons around France.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V2 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V2 “As we see some grounds that have long lain idle and untilled, when grown rich and fertile by rest, to abound with and spend their virtue in the product of innumerable sorts of weed…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V3 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V3 “Valour has its bounds as well as other virtues, which, once transgressed, the next step is into the territories of vice; so that by having too large a proportion of this heroic vir…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V4 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V4 “We repute physicians fortunate when they hit upon a lucky cure, as if there was no other art but theirs that could not stand upon its own legs, and whose foundations are too weak t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V5 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V5 “The novelty, rather than the greatness of things, tempts us to inquire into their causes. We are to judge with more reverence, and with greater acknowledgment of our own ignorance …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V6 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V6 “As if we had an infectious touch, we, by our manner of handling, corrupt things that in themselves are laudable and good: we may grasp virtue so that it becomes vicious, if we embr…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V7 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V7 “If the original being of those things we fear had power to lodge itself in us by its own authority, it would then lodge itself alike, and in like manner, in all; for men are all of…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V8 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V8 “Is it not a singular testimony of imperfection that we cannot establish our satisfaction in any one thing, and that even our own fancy and desire should deprive us of the power to …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V9 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V9 “Now, amongst the rest, drunkenness seems to me to be a gross and brutish vice. The soul has greater part in the rest, and there are some vices that have something, if a man may so …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V10 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V10 “These are fancies of my own, by which I do not pretend to discover things but to lay open myself; they may, peradventure, one day be known to me, or have formerly been, according a…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V11 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V11 “If this were true, men need not be virtuous but in public; and we should be no further concerned to keep the operations of the soul, which is the true seat of virtue, regular and i…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V12 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V12 “We are subject to a repletion of humours, useless and dangerous: whether of those that are good (for even those the physicians are afraid of; and seeing we have nothing in us that …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V13 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V13 “. The true touch and test of a happy marriage have respect to the time of the companionship, if it has been constantly gentle, loyal, and agreeable. In our age, women commonly rese…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V14 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V14 “This other lesson is too high and too difficult: 'tis for men of the first form of knowledge purely to insist upon the thing, to consider and judge it; it appertains to one sole So…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V15 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V15 “Has only one Chapter: Upon Some Verses of Virgil…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V16 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V16 “Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge our selves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against anything to proclaim its defects, because they are in all t…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V17 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V17 “Has only one Chapter: Of Vanity…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V18 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V18 “Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and trust; and 'tis not amiss; we could not choose worse than by ourselves in so weak an age. That image of Socrates' discour…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | The Essays of Montaigne, V19 — Michel de Montaigne |
The Essays of Montaigne, V19 “Last in a series. Has only one Chapter: Of Experience…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Michel de Montaigne | Lives of Donne and Herbert — Michel de Montaigne |
Lives of Donne and Herbert “Oddly named title is in fact HARVARD CLASSICS V32--includes some Montaigne, Kant, Celtic poetry, etc.…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Essays |
Essays “THE inconstancy and various motions of fortune may reasonably make us expect she would present us with all sorts of faces. Can there be a more express act of justice than this? The…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend |
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend “Sect. 2.--But, because the name of a Christian is be- come too general to express our faith,--there being a geography of religion as well as lands, and every clime distinguished no…” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |
| Various authors | Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus — Robert Steele |
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus “The men of Germany call men of this land Frisons, and between them and the Germans is great difference in clothing and in manner. For wellnigh all men be shorn round; and the more …” Read it free at Project Gutenberg Find old printed copies at the Internet Archive | |