Pierre Eyquem de Montaigne
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 30 instances of Pierre Eyquem de Montaigne in 13 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Pierre Eyquem de Montaigne in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 116.
On the Education of Children My late father having made the most precise inquiry that any man could possibly make …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 116.
On the Education of Children not, however, believe that to be the only cause. However, the expedient my father found out for this was, that in my infancy, and before I …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 116.
On the Education of Children be imagined how great an advantage this proved to the whole family; my father and my mother by this means learned Latin enough to understand it …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 117.
On the Education of Children As to Greek, of which I have but a mere smattering, my father also designed to have it taught me by a device, but a …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 118.
On the Education of Children alone being sufficient to recommend both the prudence and the affection of so good a father, who is not to be blamed if he did not reap fruits …
- Book 1 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 119.
On the Education of Children which whetted my appetite to devour those books. For the chief things my father expected from their endeavors to whom he had delivered me for education, …
- Book 1 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 1.
On a Deficiency in Our Systems My late father, a man that had no other advantages than experience and his own …
- Book 1 · Chapter 34 · ¶ 3.
On a Deficiency in Our Systems My father in his domestic economy had this rule (which I know how to …
- Book 1 · Chapter 35 · ¶ 14.
On the Custom of Wearing Clothes for I seldom wear other than black or white, in imitation of my father), let us add another story out of Le Capitaine Martin du Bellay, …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 11.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them so many reversals of fortune. They saw death as so inevitable that my father, whom I have heard tell the story, counted twenty five heads of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 2 · ¶ 26.
On Drunkenness the after breakfasts, dinner snatches, and collations I used to see in my father’s house, when I was a boy, were more usual and frequent then …
- Book 2 · Chapter 2 · ¶ 27.
On Drunkenness ’Tis not to be imagined what strange stories I have heard my father tell of the chastity of that age wherein he lived. It was …
- Book 2 · Chapter 11 · ¶ 17.
On Cruelty me to be descended of a race famous for integrity and of a very good father; I know not whether or no he has infused into me part …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 2.
Apology for Raymond Sebond to men of knowledge, and is very well known to them; for my father, who governed it fifty years and upward, inflamed with the new ardor …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 3.
Apology for Raymond Sebond with some others of his sort, staid some days at Montaigne in my father’s company, he presented him at his departure with a book, entitled Theologia …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 3.
Apology for Raymond Sebond de Sabonde. And as the Italian and Spanish tongues were familiar to my father, and as this book was written in a sort of jargon of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 6.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Now, my father, a little before his death, having accidentally found this book under a …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 6.
Apology for Raymond Sebond else to do, and not being able to resist the command of the best father that ever was, I did it as well as I could; and he was so …
- Book 2 · Chapter 18 · ¶ 9.
On Calling Out Lies a particular sword they wore, and have not thrown the long staves my father used to carry in his hand, out of my closet. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 21.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers ’Tis to be believed that I derive this infirmity from my father, for he died wonderfully tormented with a great stone in his bladder; …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 22.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers of their doctrine; the antipathy I have against their art is hereditary. My father lived three-score and fourteen years, my grandfather sixty-nine, my great-grandfather almost fourscore …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 23.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers and natural instinct; for the very sight of drugs was loathsome to my father. The Seigneur de Gaujac, my uncle by the father’s side, a churchman, …
- Book 3 · Chapter 2 · ¶ 18.
On Repentance have fallen into twice or thrice in my life, and once seeing my father in perfect health fall upon me in a swoon, I have always …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 27.
On Vanity My father took a delight in building at Montaigne, where he was born; and …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 32.
On Vanity I could wish that, instead of some other member of his succession, my father had resigned to me the passionate affection he had in his old …
- Book 3 · Chapter 9 · ¶ 218.
On Vanity of any of my own country; they are all dead; so is my father as absolutely dead as they, and is removed as far from me …
- Book 3 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 11.
On Conserving One’s Will expect from my service. And whereas the knowledge they had had of my late father, and the honor they had for his memory, had alone incited them …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 119.
On Experience If I had any sons, I should willingly wish them my fortune: the good father that God gave me, who has nothing of me but the acknowledgment of his goodness, but …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 127.
On Experience I am not excessively fond either of salads or fruits, except melons. My father hated all sorts of sauces; I love them all. Eating too much …
- Book 3 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 132.
On Experience water; and when I am at home, by an ancient custom that my father’s physician prescribed both to him and himself, they mix that which is …