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Kings of Caftile and Portugal not Conquerors in the ladies

Knighthood, Orders of

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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

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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

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French, better natured

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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

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Lewis, St. how he prevented a Tartarian King from going to kifs the Pope's

Toe

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Liberty of Confcience

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Licinius, Enemy to Knowledge.

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Life, many Ways to get rid of it

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of a wife Man

ibid.

the Contempt of it ridiculous

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painful and irkfome, exchanged for Death

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future

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of Men compared to a Dream

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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
Maladies disfiguring the Countenance the most dangerous
Man whipped about like a Top

is a good Doctrine to himself

whether it is Vanity in him to speak fincerely of himself
how he ought to value himself

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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's confufed Idea of himself

Man called a little World
why he feldom doubts

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
Marot's Difpenfation to the Ladies

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Marriage, the fitteft Age for it

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Knot

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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

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Melancholy People the most tractable, yet the moft inclined to Madness

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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

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in an Equilibrium

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what is its proper Food

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Mirth, how compatible with Wisdom

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Moderation has more Work than Sufferance

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Monluc, Marshal de, his Sorrow for having kept his Son at too great a Dif

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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

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Muleaffes, King of Tunis, what he reprcached his Father for

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Mules, why favoured by the Athenians

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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

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Neceffity of Things that are to come

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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

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Nightingales teach their Young to fing

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Ninachetuen, an Indian, his remarkable Suicide

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Nobleffe of France

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Oceanus and Thetis, Father and Mother to the Gods

Old Age liable to Contempt, &c.
Old Age's Comfort

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