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His essays attempts, trials, experiments explore such topics as fear, age, friendship, repentance, sorrow, and many others while his natural wandering approach help make. Charles cotton, revised by william carew hazlett new york. Montaigne s 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, the frenchman s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds, coeval and subsequent. Let the ladies look to that, for tis chiefly their concern. His father, pierre eyquem, esquire, was successively first jurat of the town of bordeaux 1530, undermayor 1536, jurat for the second time in 1540, procureur in 1546.
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