Kings of Caftile and Portugal not Conquerors in the ladies Knighthood, Orders of Page 472 65, &c. Knowledge, whether it exempts those that have it from Inconveniencies 207 of Literature difcovers a Treasure of Pleasure depends upon that of Evil throws Men into the Arms of Ignorance the Increase of it increaseth Sorrow how much the greatest Men have attained to of prefent Things as remote from us as that of the Stars of our own Being of the Soul very difficult to attain to treated like a Toy by the ancient Philofophers human, its Extent of Man very difficult to Man its Bafis and Butt guided by Senfe 210 L. Polity without Learning Prayer to their Deity Children whipped at Diana's Altar Abienus buried himself alive, why Lacedæmonian Lad who would not be a Slave though a Captive Lacedæmonians Anfwer to Antipater's Menace Ladies diffuaded from preferring Suicide to being ravished 91 23 24 223 339 528 34 French, better natured ibid. Learning brought into Efteem by Francis the First has its Place amongst the necessary Things of this Life not barely a Remembrance of what we knew before Leonora, Montaigne's only Daughter Letters, whether the Reading of them should be deferred Lewis, St. how he prevented a Tartarian King from going to kifs the Pope's Toe 143 Liberty of Confcience 461 Licinius, Enemy to Knowledge. 223 Life, many Ways to get rid of it 24 of a wife Man ibid. the Contempt of it ridiculous 29 painful and irkfome, exchanged for Death 35 future 255 of Men compared to a Dream 368 Mahomet a very great Lecher Mahometans tearing their Flesh to gratify their Prophet Maid throwing herself out of a Window for Fear of a Rape is a good Doctrine to himself whether it is Vanity in him to speak fincerely of himself 22, 215 175 254 536 261 4 517 3 61 62 63, 64 Man, Man, why created rational Man's Refpect due to the Animals Man, by what Right he claims a Superiority over all Animals not the only Animal abandoned naked upon the bare Earth the fole Animal whofe Nudity offends his Companions wherein fuperior to the Beafts Man's fovereign Good, what beautiful Figure Man thinks every Thing created for him Man called a little World defined by Plato follicitous to prolong his Being Man's firft Production Man not the Measure of all Things cannot find out what is necessary for him whether he has all Senfes without any Genitals Manners of Beafts proposed to Men, for the Regimen of their Health of the Vulgar more regular than the Philofophers Marcellinus Ammianus Tullius's deliberate Death Mares honourably buried Marius, Son of Mars and Venus Marriage, the fitteft Age for it 76 Knot 394 happy, Proof of it 553, 554 Marriages between Relations 345 in Honour among the Romans, why 394 Martial's Epigrams 105 Mafk, why firft invented 392 Means, bad, the End good 477, 480 Mecænas's Paffion for Life 573 Mechmed, Emperor's Barbarity 500 Medes heavily armed 96 Melancholy People the most tractable, yet the moft inclined to Madness Midwives Milefian Virgins hanged themselves Merlins in the Mahometan Religion Metellus's Virtue against Saturninus's Violence Metrocles and Crates firove which could f―t moft Michael, St. his Order Midas obliged to revoke his Prayer to the Gods Milefians and Parians Mind, the Productions of it as dear to Authors as their Children Page 276 119 350 66 340 240 30 9 ၄၀ in an Equilibrium 388 what is its proper Food 244 Mirth, how compatible with Wisdom 19 Moderation has more Work than Sufferance 542 Monluc, Marshal de, his Sorrow for having kept his Son at too great a Dif Montaigne's Inconftancy and Ficklenefs 6. His Character of his Father 16, &c. His Savoon 54 to 61. His Letter to Madame d' Eftifsac 69. Marriage 76. His Fondness for his Book 93. Why he did not chufe to name his Authors 100. What he fought for in Books 101. What Books be fancied moft 102, 103, to 117. His Virtue 125, 128. His Opinions 126. His Tender-heartedness 128, 129, 132, 136. His Friendhip to learned Men 137, &c. Why he was not for novel Opinions 330. His Safety in a defenceless Houfe 389. His Gefiure taken for Pride 416. How be undervalued himself 417. His Diflike of his own Writings 419, 421. His Stile 422. His Language and Perfon 424, 425, to 427. His Conflitution 428. His Contentment 429. His Delicacy and Indolence 430. His Averfion to Deliberation 431. His Difguft to Ambition 432. To the Times in which he was born 434. His Abhorrence of Diffimulation and Lying 435. His frank and open Carriage to great Men 437. Averfion to Obligation and Conftraint 438. His bad Memory 439, &c. His Genius and Sight, and his Ignorance of common Things 441. His Opinion of himself 447, 448; and of the Times 450. Why he wrote fo much about himself 455, 457. His Brother killed in a Duel 494. His angry Difpofition 524. His Patience nevertheless in the Difeafe he always dreaded 572 to 574, 576, 578. His Contempt and Raillery of Phyfic and of the Faculty 579, 580, &c. 606, &c. His Letter to Madame de Duras 604. Why be preferred present Efeem to that which is pofthumous ibid. What Things he valued moft 605. Montdore ranked among the best Latin Poets Montferrat, Conrade Marquis of, affaffinated Montmorency, Conflable of, his Death and Character Muleaffes, King of Tunis, what he reprcached his Father for Mules, why favoured by the Athenians Page 136 186 Muley Moluc, King of Fez, when dying, victorious over the Portuguese 474 mifchievous Subtlety Mullets, or Scare-Fish, helping their Companions Multitudes Judgement, why contemned Mufes facrificed unto by the Lacedæmonians, why Mufcles firring and trembling after the Bodies are dead Mutes fubtle and active to understand by Signs 195 405 59 410 158 Neceffity of Things that are to come 510 Negligence, Vice oppofite to Curiosity Nero's Reluctance at figning a Dead Warrant Nerva's facrificing himself in Pity to the miferable State of Rome News enquired after with great Paffion Nicetas, one of the first that asserted the Motion of the Earth 44 I 36 44 831 Nightingales teach their Young to fing 174 Ninachetuen, an Indian, his remarkable Suicide 36 Nobleffe of France 68 Oceanus and Thetis, Father and Mother to the Gods Old Age liable to Contempt, &c. |