 | John Timbs - 1839 - 446 pages
...soil. Montaigne is the earliest classical writer in the French language, the first whom a gentlemen is ashamed not to have read. So long as an unaffected...indecency so characteristic of French literature, but in uo writer on serious topics, except Bayle, more habitual than in Montaigne. It may be observed, that... | |
 | English periodicals - 1840 - 706 pages
...have read. So long as an unaffected style and an appearance of the utmost simplicity and good-nature shall charm, so long as the lovers of desultory and...Montaigne be among the favourite authors of mankind." The following remarks upon the intellectual habits, and the mode of composition of this kindly and... | |
 | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - 1842 - 792 pages
...very tone of their censures is sufficient to prove the vast influence he had excrtul I over the world. Montaigne is the earliest classical writer in the...resource in pain — so long will Montaigne be among the most favourite authors of mankind. — Introduction to tfie Literature of Europe. London. 1 839. Vol.... | |
 | 1840 - 720 pages
...insights we have gained, and compare them with the usual promptings and operations of our own minds. conversation shall be more numerous than those who...Montaigne be among the favourite authors of mankind." The following remarks upon the intellectual habits, and the mode of composition of this kindly and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Art - 1844 - 484 pages
...conversation shall be more numerous than those who prefer a lecture or a sermon, — so long as rending is sought by the many as an amusement in idleness,...resource in pain — so long will Montaigne be among the most favourite authors of mankind — Hallaru's Literature of Europe, vol. 2. Of those books to which... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt - 1845 - 786 pages
...Montaigne is the earliest classical writer in the French language — the first whom a gentleman ii ashamed not to have read. So long as an unaffected...resource in pain — so long will Montaigne be among the most favourite authors of mankind. — Introduction to the Literature of Europe. London. 1 839. Vol.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Booksellers' catalogs - 1847 - 602 pages
...of desultory and cheerful conversation shall be more numerous than those who préféra lecture ora sermon, so long as reading is sought by the many as...Montaigne be among the favourite authors of mankind." — Hallam. " No prose writer of the sixteenth century has bren so generally read, nor probably given... | |
 | HENRY J. BOHN - 1847 - 602 pages
...numerous than those who prefer a lecture or a sermon, so long as reading is sought by tbe many as au amusement in idleness, or a resource in pain, so long...Montaigne be among the favourite authors of mankind." — Hallam. " No prose writer of the sixteenth century bas been so generally read, nor probably given... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Booksellers' catalogs - 1847 - 600 pages
...than those who préféra lecture or a sermon, so long aa reading is sought by the many as an amnsement in idleness, or a resource in pain, so long will Montaigne be among (he favonrite authors of mankind." — Ilallam. " No prole writer of the sixteenth century has been... | |
 | HENRY G. BOHN'S - 1847 - 622 pages
...a lecture or a sermon, so long as reading is sought by the many as an amusement in idleness, or я resource in pain, so long will Montaigne be among the favourite authors of mankind."—Iltulam. " No prose writer of the sixteenth century bas been so generally read, nor probably... | |
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French language, the first whom a gentleman is ashamed not to have read. So long as an unaffected style and an appearance of the utmost simplicity and good nature shall charm, so long as the lovers of desultory and cheerful conversation shall be more... 
