Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 10
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 10
Michel de Montaigne Editor · English
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CHAPTER VIII OF THE AFFECTION OF FATHERS TO THEIR CHILDREN To Madame D'Estissac. MADAM, if the strangeness and novelty of my subject, which are wont to give value to things, do not save me, I shall never come off with honour from this foolish attempt: but 'tis so fantastic, and carries a face so unlike the common use, that this, peradventure, may make it pass. 'Tis a melancholic humour, and consequently a humour very much an enemy to my natural complexion, engendered by the pensiv
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