that great Spanish divine and philofopher Raymond de Sebonde into a French dress, and have as much as lay in my power ftripped him of that rough mien and unpolite afpect, which he firft appeared in to you; fo that in my opinion he is comely and complaifant enough to appear in the best of company. It is poffible that fome delicate curious readers may perceive, that he has a little of the Gascogne turn and biafs; but they may be the more ashamed of their own negligence, in fuffering a perfon quite a novice and a learner to get the start of them in this work. Now, Monfeigneur, it is but reason that it fhould be published to the world, and have the credit of your name, because what amendinent and reformation it has is all owing to you. Yet I plainly perceive, that if you fhould pleafe to fettle accompts with him, you will be very much his debtor, fince in exchange for his excellent and most religious difcourfes, of his fublime, and as it were divine conceptions, it will appear that you have only brought him words and language, a merchandize fo mean and vulgar, that he who has the greateft ftock of it is peradventure the worse for it. Monfeigneur, I beg God to grant you a long and happy life. Your most humble and most obedient fon, MICHAEL DE MONTAIGNE. N. B. Mr. Cofte bas inferted a letter before this, which is addreffed to Mademoiselle de Paumier, but it is only a fhort one, of mere compliment. А СОМ Accommodations of the quarrels of thefe days, fhameful and false 31 1 Acknowledgments of benefits Action, forced, has neither grace nor honour Actions the most common, the most troublesome neceffary, pleasant of all forts, equally honourable to a wife man 249 238 117 313 431, &c. 433 343 323 389 Accufations answered with an ironical and fcoffing confeffion Admiration, the foundation of philosophy Advice, free, neceffary to kings Æfop, his afs his dog Affairs, domeftic, defpifed 9 in farewels how they ought to be conducted Affection well tempered Affections of beafts, what of women fubject to change occafioned by fmall things Air, evening, fharp and dangerous Agefilaus, his opinion of love towards children weakened by their imperfections in his travels ledged in temples, why Alcibiades, why he cut off the tail and ears of his dog his ambition Hh3 enjoyed corporal pleafures his labour and end of it Alteration, whatever hurts and aftonishes Ambition, a vice of great men Americans virtue betrayed them to the Spaniards 431 439 399 315 163, 164 Amphitheatres rich and fumptuous 156 Andreole banged by his wife, Joan queen of Naples, for not being 130 Andron the Argian travelled over the fands of Lybia without drink- ing 394 Animofity betwixt Cæfar and Pompey 304 Antigonus's punishment of the treachery of his enemy's foldiers 12 excufe from giving any thing to a Cynic 331 Antiochus corrected his own writings 235 culture as well as horfes Antifthenes, why he advised the Athenians to employ affes in agri- his opinion of Socrates Apes very large taken by Alexander in the Indies Appetites rare in old age 197 385 115 190 27 34 of the body ought not to be augmented by the mind 138 Apples of Hypomenes 3C9 55 Arcefilaus's answer to a question, if it was poffible for a wife man, 142 267 Areopagites ordering the parties to appear again after an hundred 325 Argyrafpides, foldiers, punished for having betrayed their general 12 living as a ftranger in all places Ariftodemus, king, what determined him to kill himself Ariftotle's opinion of beauty Aftrology, when it had not determined the motion of the moon 319 Atalanta diverted from her way, loft the race 55 Atlantes . Avarice has no greater impediment than itself 296 Auguftin, St. his account of the transformation of a man into a horfe after his eating cheese 328 Aufterity of James king of Naples and Sicily 50 52 of life affected by fome churchmen of mens decrees renders the propenfion of women more 94 Authority of the counfels of kings ought to be preferved, and how 195 Albus's tranquil life B. B Bashfulness an ornament to young people Beafts, naturally folicitous of their prefervation Beauty, what is, and how much it ought to be efteemed / Beauties of the perfon when preferred to those of the mind of feveral forts Benefit, reproach of one that is conferred, odious Eeautiful, called good 172 77 358 362 49 142 363 362 242 362 Believers, whether the number of them is a proof that they have 321, 322 Births and burials interdicted in the precincts of the Isle of Delos, 119 truth on their fide Bion's frank defcription of his original Biffextile day 318 Bloody flux, flighted only as a looseness 338 Body's health and vigour the cause of the sprightliness of the mind 71 useful, and good, and yet no credit to their authors Bounty and benefits preferred before valour rare, the more beautiful and attractive Broth of eringos, or burft-wort, taken to oblige the ladies. Bufinefs, mark of understanding in fome men Bufinefs of most part of men is a farce 52 202 243 47 419 406 290 309 C. Cambyfes's dream that made him put his brother to death Page 66 Capacity unfit for the management of public affairs Capets, the meaning of that term Carriage, ridiculous, of a gentleman in his own house 13 274 210, 297 278 221 Carthaginians, in what cafe they punished their victorious generals 194 Cato's vigorous virtue Caufey magnificent betwixt Quito and Cusco. Ceremonies troublesome Chaces within the theatre at Rome. Chance has a very great share in human actions Change pleafing to men gives form to injuftice and tyranny Chariots drawn by four oxen 150 Chaftifement of offences ought to be performed without anger 296 Chastity vowed and kept on the wedding-day how hard it is for women to preferve theirs doth principally lie in the will of women, too nice an infpection into it pernicious Chelonis, the daughter of one king, and wife of another, nerous temper Chewing accounted unbecoming 88 95 101, 102, &c. 103, 104 104 ibid. 1с6 her ge 421 120 214 285 ibid. 161 379 267 226 3'4 Children, how ought to be provided for by their fathers Choafpes, river, the water of it the conftant beverage of the Per Cinna, a remarkable action in the civil war against him Cleanthes, how much he got by the labour of his own hands ⚫made ufe of by the Hungarians against the Turks Codpieces worn heretofore 92 Coin, the use of it unknown in the Indies 168 Comedians touched to the quick in the acting of their |