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The most usual way of appeasing the indignation of such as we have any way offended, when we see them in possession of the power of revenge, and find that we absolutely lie at their mercy, is by submission, to move them to commiseration and pity; and yet bravery, constancy, and resolution, however quite contrary means, have sometimes served to produce the same effect.

The present publication is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literaturea library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be regarded as a classic, not only in the land of his birth, but in all countries and in all literatures. His Essays, which are at once the most celebrated and the most permanent of his productions, form a magazine out of which such minds as those of Bacon and Shakespeare did not disdain to help themselves; and, indeed, as Hallam observes, the Frenchmans literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and subsequent. But, at the same time, estimating the value and rank of the essayist, we are not to leave out of the account the drawbacks and the circumstances of the period: the imperfect state of education, the comparative scarcity of books, and the limited opportunities of intellectual intercourse. Montaigne freely borrowed of others, and he has found men willing to borrow of him as freely. We need not wonder at the reputation which he with seeming facility achieved. He was, without being aware of it, the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the ancient currents of thought into new channels. It told its readers, with unexampled frankness, what its writers opinion was about men and things, and threw what must have been a strange kind of new light on many matters but darkly understood. Above all, the essayist uncased himself, and made his intellectual and physical organism public property. He took the world into his confidence on all subjects. His essays were a sort of literary anatomy, where we get a diagnosis of the writers mind, made by himself at different levels and under a large variety of operating influences.

Les gens plus sages, peuvent se forger un repos tout spirituel, ayant l''âme forte et vigoureuse: Moi qui l''ai commune, il faut que j''aide à me soutenir par les commodités corporelles: Et l''âge m'

Et quand personne ne me lira, ai-je perdu mon temps de m''être entretenu tant d''heures oisives à pensements si utiles et agréables ? Moulant sur moi cette figure, il m''a fallu si souvent dresser et

Tr.: Charles Cotton Ed.: William Carew Hazilitt / Contents: / Preface / The Life of Montaigne / The Letters of Montaigne

Libro de Texto: LECTOESCRITURA 1 PAUTA MONTESSORI Coleccion TIC-TAC, Edicion 2010, castellano

S''il y a quelque personne, quelque bonne compagnie, aux champs, en la ville, en France, ou ailleurs, resséante ou voyagère, à qui mes humeurs soient bonnes, de qui les humeurs me soient bonnes, il n

Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form.In 1572, Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and reflection. There he wrote his constantly expanding essays, inspired by the ideas he found in books from his library and his own experience.He discusses subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and politics, sex and religion, love and friendship, ecstasy and experience. Above all, Montaigne studied himself to find his own inner nature and that of humanity. The Essays are among the most idiosyncratic and personal works in all literature. An insight into a wise Renaissance mind, they continue to engage, enlighten and entertain modern readers.Born in 1533, Michel de Montaigne studied law and spent a number of years working as a counsellor before devoting his life to reading, writing and reflection. He died in 1586.

Los Ensayos de Montaigne, publicados en sucesivas ediciones entre 1580 y 1588, inauguran un genero de la literatura universal. Bajo ese título entonces novedoso, el autor concibe sus escritos como 'tentativas' de un pensamiento que aborda con audacia temas de diversa indole, extension y enjundia. Inquietudes de la epoca, aspectos de la vida cotidiana, rasgos y anecdotas de la antiguedad, graves cuestiones filosoficas y morales se tratan sin sujecion a prejuicios ni sistemas, en un lenguaje libre que prescinde de toda retorica. Profundamente impregnados por la cultura clasica, los Ensayos parecen entablar una amena conversacion, no solo con los autores antiguos y modernos que frecuentemente citan, sino sobre todo con el lector, autentico destinatario de unas reflexiones cuyo objeto ultimo es la condicion humana en toda su complejidad y variacion. Por ello dira el autor que el mismo es la materia de su libro: asi, su autorretrato sirve para revelar al ser humano, que el define como 'un objeto extraordinariamente vano, mudable y fluctuante'. Esta edicion de los Ensayos, primera bilingue en el ambito hispanico, presenta el original frances, depurado y modernizado, frente a una traduccion rigurosa y sensible a las multiples cualidades del texto. Al final del volumen, un exhaustivo

Este libro recoge, traducidos al castellano, algunos de los principales capítulos de los Ensayos de Montaigne que abordan la cuestión de la educación. A través de la lectura de «Del magisterio», «De

« C'est ici un livre de bonne foi, lecteur. Il t'avertit, dès l'entrée, que je ne m'y suis proposé aucune fin, que domestique et privée... Je veux qu'on m'y voie en ma façon simple, naturelle et ordinaire, sans contention et artifice : car c'est moi que je peins. Mes défauts s'y liront au vif, et ma forme naïve, autant que la révérence publique me l'a permis. Que si j'eusse été sous ces nations qu'on dit vivre encore sous la douce liberté des premières lois de nature, je t'assure que je m'y fusse très volontiers peint tout entier, et tout nu. »