ESSAYS, political, economical and philosophical by Benjamin Count of Rumford Knight of the orders of the white eagle, and St. Atanislaus; Chamberlain, Privy Counsellor of St

WHAT PAUL BOURGET THINKS OF US He reports the American joke correctly. In Boston they ask, How much does he know? in New York, How much is he worth? in Philad

INTRODUCTION. William Petty, born on the 26th of May, 1623, was the son of a clothier at Romsey in Hampshire.  After education at the Romsey Grammar School, he continued his st

INTRODUCTION It is hardly necessary to apologise for the miscellaneous character of the following collection of essays.  Samuel Butler was a man of such unusual versatility, and

p. 1I. THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT p. 2To ROBERT ALAN MOWBRAY STEVENSON Our friendship was not only founded before we were born by a community of blood, but is in itself near as ol

ON AUTHORSHIP AND STYLE ON NOISE ON EDUCATION ON READING AND BOOKS THE EMPTINESS OF EXISTENCE ON WOMEN THINKING FOR ONESELF SHORT DIALOGUE ON THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF OUR TRUE BEIN

Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 19. XIII. Of Experience. CHAPTER XIII OF EXPERIENCE There is no desire more natural than that of knowledge. We try all ways that can lead us to it

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 18. X. Of Managing the Will. XI. Of Cripples. XII. Of Physiognomy. CHAPTER X OF MANAGING THE WILL Few things, in comparison

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 17. IX. Of Vanity CHAPTER IX OF VANITY There is, peradventure, no more manifest vanity than to write of it so vainly. That which divinity has so

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 16. VI. Of Coaches. VII. Of the Inconvenience of Greatness. VIII. Of the Art of Conference. CHAPTER VI OF COACHES It is very e

CHAPTER V UPON SOME VERSES OF VIRGIL CHAPTER V. By how much profitable thoughts are more full and solid, by so much are they also more cumbersome and heavy: vice, death,

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 14. I. Of Profit and Honesty. II. Of Repentance. III. Of Three Commerces. IV. Of Diversion. ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE BOOK

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 13. XXXII. Defence of Seneca and Plutarch. XXXIII. The story of Spurina. XXXIV. Means to carry on a war according to Julius Caesar. XXXV.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 12. XVIII. Of giving the lie. XIX. Of liberty of conscience. XX. That we taste nothing pure. XXI. Against idleness. XXII. O

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 11. XIII. Of judging of the death of another. XIV. That the mind hinders itself. XV. That our desires are augmented by difficulty. XVI

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 thin

CHAPTER II OF DRUNKENNESS The world is nothing but variety and disemblance, vices are all alike, as they are vices, and peradventure the Stoics understand them so; but alth

CHAPTER XLIX OF ANCIENT CUSTOMS I should willingly pardon our people for admitting no other pattern or rule of perfection than their own peculiar manners and customs; for 't

CHAPTER XL THAT THE RELISH FOR GOOD AND EVIL DEPENDS IN GREAT MEASURE UPON THE OPINION WE HAVE OF THEM Men (says an ancient Greek sentence)—[Manual of Epictetus, c. 10.]— a

CHAPTER XXVII OF FRIENDSHIP Having considered the proceedings of a painter that serves me, I had a mind to imitate his way. He chooses the fairest place and middle of any

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 5. XXV. Of the education of children. XXVI. That it is folly to measure truth and error by our own capacity.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 4. XXII. Of custom, and that we should not easily change a law received XXIII. Various events from the same counsel. XXIV. Of pedantry.

CHAPTER XIII THE CEREMONY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES There is no subject so frivolous that does not merit a place in this rhapsody. According to our common rule of civilit