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Michael Seigneur de Montaigne,

Tranflated into ENGLISH.

The SEVENTH EDITION,.

With very confiderable

AMENDMENTS and IMPROVEMENTS,

From the most accurate and elegant French Edition of

PETER COST E.

In THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed for S. and E. BALLARD, J. CLARKE, D. BROWNE, C. HITCH
and L. HAWES, A. MILLAR, J. POTE, C. BATHURST, B. BARKER,
T. PAYNE, T. WALLER, W. JOHNSTON, S. CROWDER, T. LONG-
MAN, P. DAVEY and B. LAW, C. CORBET, and P. BRINDLEY.

M.DCC.LIX.

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THE

PREFACE,

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Seventh English Edition of MONTAIGNE'S ESSAYS.

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HESE Effays were firft done into English, in the Year 1603, by Mr. Florio *, but they were much better tranflated in the Reign of K. Charles II. by Charles Cotton, Efq; (famous for his witty Poetry on the Wonders of the Peak,) and George Savil Marquis of Hallifax, then Lord Privy Seal, and afterwards Prefident of the Council, to whom that Translation was dedicated, honoured it with his fpecial Approbation, by the following Letter to the Tranflator, at his Houfe at Berisford, in Derbyshire.

SIR,

I have too long delayed my Thanks to you for giving me fuch an obliging Evidence of your Remembrance: That alone would have been a welcome Prefent; but when joined with the Book in the World I am best entertained with, it raiseth a strong Defire in me to be better known, where I am fure to be fo much pleafed. I have 'till now, thought Wit could not be tranflated, and do ftill retain fo much of that Opinion, that I believe it impoffible, except by one whofe Genius cometh up to that of the Author. You have the Original Strength of • his

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*This Gentleman, whofe Ancestors were the Florii of Sienna in Tufcany, was for fome Time a Teacher at Magdalen College, in the Univerfity of Oxford; and, after King James the First came to the Crown, was appointed Tutor to Prince Hry, in the Italian and French Tongues; and compiled a Dictionary, Italian and Englife, which was firft printed at London, in 1597. Having lived to a good old Age, he died at Fulham, of the Plague, in 1625.

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