Ey quem le ESSAYS In THREE BOOKS. WITH NOTES and QUOTATIONS. Tranflated by CHARLES COTTON, Efq; Virefque acquirit eundo. VIRG. Lib. 4. Æn. The SECOND VOLUME. The SIXTH EDITION Corrected and Amended. With the Addition of A Complete TABLE to each Volume. LONDON: Printed for B. and B. Barker, G. Strahan, S. Ballard, D. Browne, C. Hitch, J. Clarke, J. Brindley, B. Creake, J. Pote, R. Chandler, C. Corbett, R. Wellington, J. Hodges, C. Bathurst, E. Commyns, W. Calwell, and J. New. M.DCC:XLIIL Chap. 29. Of Virtue, Chap. 26. Of Thumbs, Chap. 27. Cowardice the Mother of Cruelty, Chap. 28. All Things have their Season, 416 417 428 Chap. 30. Of a monflrous Child, 430 Chap. 31. Of Anger, 438 Chap. 32. Defence of Seneca and Plutarch, 440 Chap. 33. The Story of Spurina, 449 according to Julius Cæfar, Chap. 35. Of three good Women, Chap. 36. Of the most excellent Men, Chap. 34. Obfervation of the Means to carry on a War, Chap. 37. Of the Refemblance of Children to their Fathers, 456 469 474 483 490 ESSAYS. ESSAYS O F Michael Seig. de Montaigne. The SECOND BOOK. T CHAP. I. Of the Inconftancy of our Actions. HOSE who make it their Bufinefs to controul or criticize human Actions, never find themfelves fo much puzzled in any thing, as how to reconcile and fet them before the World in a felf-confiftent Light and Reputation; for they are generally fuch ftrange Contradictions in themselves, that it feems almoft impoffible they fhould proceed from one and the fame Perfon. One while we find young Marius a Son of Mars, and another time the Son of Venus. Pope Boniface the Eighth (it is faid) crept into the Papal Throne like a Fox, reigned like a Lion, and died like a Dog. And who could believe it to be the fame Nero, that perfect Image of all Cruelty, who in the beginning of VOL. II. B his |