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Alexander

In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne

There are 72 instances of Alexander in 38 chapters.

Normalized frequency of Alexander in the Essays

Bar graph showing log-normalized frequency of Alexander over the 108 chapters of the Essays where 38 chapters are highlighted.To the Reader (FM.1): 0 instance / 246 wordsBy Various Ways We Arrive at the Same End (I.1): 4 instances / 1,339 wordsOn Sorrow (I.2): 0 instance / 1,150 wordsOur Attachments Outlive Us (I.3): 0 instance / 2,742 wordsHow the Soul Releases Its Emotions on False Objects When Real Ones Are Missing (I.4): 0 instance / 833 wordsWhether the Commander of a Place Under Siege Ought to Go Out to Parley (I.5): 0 instance / 974 wordsThe Dangerous Hour of Parley (I.6): 1 instance / 879 wordsIntent Is the Arbiter of Our Actions (I.7): 0 instance / 560 wordsOn Idleness (I.8): 0 instance / 404 wordsOn Liars (I.9): 0 instance / 2,056 wordsOn Quick or Slow Speech (I.10): 0 instance / 823 wordsOn Prognostications (I.11): 0 instance / 1,560 wordsOn Constancy (I.12): 0 instance / 860 wordsProtocol at the Meetings of Kings (I.13): 0 instance / 517 wordsThere Is a Price to Pay for Needlessly Defending a Position (I.14): 0 instance / 434 wordsOn the Punishment of Cowardice (I.15): 0 instance / 530 wordsA Record of Some Ambassadors (I.16): 0 instance / 1,118 wordsOn Fear (I.17): 0 instance / 934 wordsLet Others Judge of Our Happiness after Our Death (I.18): 1 instance / 973 wordsTo Philosophize Is to Learn to Die (I.19): 1 instance / 6,213 wordsOn the Power of Imagination (I.20): 0 instance / 4,300 wordsOne Person’s Gain Is Another Person’s Loss (I.21): 0 instance / 256 wordsOn Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law (I.22): 0 instance / 7,587 wordsVarious Events Sharing the Same Premise (I.23): 1 instance / 4,358 wordsOn Pedantry (I.24): 0 instance / 5,382 wordsOn the Education of Children (I.25): 3 instances / 16,387 wordsIt Is Folly to Measure the True and the False by Our Own Capacity (I.26): 0 instance / 1,666 wordsOn Friendship (I.27): 0 instance / 5,721 wordsTwenty-Nine Sonnets of Étienne de La Boétie (I.28): 0 instance / 282 wordsOn Moderation (I.29): 0 instance / 2,165 wordsOn Cannibals (I.30): 0 instance / 5,945 wordsHazarding an Opinion on God’s Plans Demands Caution (I.31): 0 instance / 894 wordsOn Fleeing from Pleasures at the Cost of One’s Life (I.32): 0 instance / 702 wordsWhere Reason Goes Fortune Often Goes Too (I.33): 0 instance / 1,269 wordsOn a Deficiency in Our Systems (I.34): 0 instance / 527 wordsOn the Custom of Wearing Clothes (I.35): 1 instance / 1,431 wordsOn Cato the Younger (I.36): 0 instance / 1,578 wordsHow We Cry and Laugh at the Same Thing (I.37): 0 instance / 1,272 wordsOn Solitude (I.38): 0 instance / 4,815 wordsA Consideration on Cicero (I.39): 1 instance / 2,340 wordsThe Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them (I.40): 1 instance / 7,894 wordsOn Not Sharing One’s Fame (I.41): 0 instance / 1,064 wordsOn the Inequality among Us (I.42): 1 instance / 4,108 wordsOn Sumptuary Laws (I.43): 0 instance / 849 wordsOn Sleep (I.44): 2 instances / 976 wordsOn the Battle of Dreux (I.45): 0 instance / 533 wordsOn Names (I.46): 0 instance / 2,145 wordsOn the Uncertainty of Our Judgment (I.47): 1 instance / 2,727 wordsOn War Horses (I.48): 3 instances / 3,595 wordsOn Ancient Customs (I.49): 0 instance / 1,780 wordsOn Democritus and Heraclitus (I.50): 2 instances / 1,426 wordsOn the Vanity of Words (I.51): 0 instance / 1,354 wordsOn the Parsimony of the Ancients (I.52): 0 instance / 302 wordsOn a Saying of Caesar (I.53): 0 instance / 487 wordsOn Vain Subtleties (I.54): 0 instance / 1,287 wordsOn Smells (I.55): 1 instance / 782 wordsOn Prayers (I.56): 0 instance / 3,862 wordsOn Age (I.57): 0 instance / 1,123 wordsOn the Inconsistency of Our Actions (II.1): 1 instance / 2,894 wordsOn Drunkenness (II.2): 0 instance / 3,823 wordsA Custom of the Island of Cea (II.3): 1 instance / 5,993 wordsBusiness Can Wait (II.4): 0 instance / 906 wordsOn Conscience (II.5): 1 instance / 1,526 wordsOn Practice (II.6): 0 instance / 4,714 wordsOn Honorary Awards (II.7): 0 instance / 1,482 wordsOn the Affection of Fathers for Their Children (II.8): 1 instance / 8,812 wordsOn the Armor of the Parthians (II.9): 1 instance / 1,287 wordsOn Books (II.10): 0 instance / 5,912 wordsOn Cruelty (II.11): 1 instance / 6,235 wordsApology for Raymond Sebond (II.12): 4 instances / 76,143 wordsOn Judging of the Death of Another (II.13): 0 instance / 2,604 wordsHow Our Mind Hinders Itself (II.14): 0 instance / 336 wordsDifficulty Increases Our Desire (II.15): 0 instance / 2,302 wordsOn Glory (II.16): 1 instance / 5,659 wordsOn Presumption (II.17): 1 instance / 13,605 wordsOn Calling Out Lies (II.18): 1 instance / 1,872 wordsOn Freedom of Conscience (II.19): 2 instances / 1,747 wordsWe Taste Nothing Pure (II.20): 0 instance / 1,221 wordsAgainst Laziness (II.21): 0 instance / 1,788 wordsOn Couriers (II.22): 0 instance / 519 wordsOn Bad Means to a Good End (II.23): 0 instance / 1,382 wordsOn Roman Greatness (II.24): 0 instance / 659 wordsOn Not Faking an Illness (II.25): 0 instance / 919 wordsOn Thumbs (II.26): 0 instance / 341 wordsCowardice, Mother of Cruelty (II.27): 0 instance / 4,113 wordsAll Things Have Their Season (II.28): 0 instance / 797 wordsOn Virtue (II.29): 1 instance / 3,239 wordsOn a Monster Child (II.30): 0 instance / 648 wordsOn Anger (II.31): 0 instance / 3,092 wordsIn Defense of Seneca and Plutarch (II.32): 0 instance / 2,846 wordsThe Story of Spurina (II.33): 0 instance / 3,116 wordsObservations on Julius Caesar’s Methods of Waging War (II.34): 4 instances / 3,580 wordsOn Three Good Women (II.35): 0 instance / 3,416 wordsOn the Most Excellent Men (II.36): 6 instances / 2,707 wordsOn the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers (II.37): 0 instance / 12,917 wordsOn the Useful and the Honorable (III.1): 0 instance / 6,593 wordsOn Repentance (III.2): 3 instances / 6,289 wordsOn Three Kinds of Relations (III.3): 0 instance / 5,358 wordsOn Diversion (III.4): 0 instance / 4,347 wordsOn Some Verses of Virgil (III.5): 5 instances / 24,595 wordsOn Coaches (III.6): 1 instance / 8,050 wordsOn the Inconvenience of High Status (III.7): 3 instances / 2,111 wordsOn the Art of Discussion (III.8): 0 instance / 10,193 wordsOn Vanity (III.9): 1 instance / 25,500 wordsOn Conserving One’s Will (III.10): 2 instances / 9,995 wordsOn the Lame (III.11): 1 instance / 4,683 wordsOn Physiognomy (III.12): 2 instances / 12,363 wordsOn Experience (III.13): 4 instances / 24,731 words