Pliny the Elder
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 25 instances of Pliny the Elder in 14 chapters.
Normalized frequency of Pliny the Elder in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 20 · ¶ 7.
On the Power of Imagination fever by the beauty of Stratonice so vividly imprinted on his soul.∗❦ Pliny says to have seen Lucius Cossitius∗ turn from woman to man on …
- Book 1 · Chapter 26 · ¶ 13.
It Is Folly to Measure the True and the False by Our Own Capacity as we? Is there anything more delicate, more clear, more sprightly; than Pliny’s judgment, when he is pleased to set it to work? Anything more …
- Book 1 · Chapter 38 · ¶ 55.
On Solitude Now, as to the end that Pliny and Cicero propose to us, of glory; ’tis infinitely wide of my …
- Book 1 · Chapter 44 · ¶ 5.
On Sleep being prisoner at Rome, was killed by being kept from sleep; but Pliny instances such as have lived long without sleep. …
- Book 1 · Chapter 48 · ¶ 7.
On War Horses find myself most at ease. Plato recommends it for health, as also Pliny says it is good for the stomach and the joints. Let us …
- Book 2 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 33.
A Custom of the Island of Cea Pliny says there are but three sorts of diseases, to escape which a …
- Book 2 · Chapter 3 · ¶ 57.
A Custom of the Island of Cea Pliny tells us of a certain Hyperborean nation where, by reason of the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 6 · ¶ 36.
On Practice death, needs no more but nearly to approach it. Every one, as Pliny says, is a good doctrine to himself, provided he be capable of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 10 · ¶ 26.
On Books The two first, and Pliny, and their like, have nothing of this Hoc age; they will have …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 71.
Apology for Raymond Sebond which are only by them exercised and expressed; and the nations that Pliny reports have no other language. …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 183.
Apology for Raymond Sebond their heads shaved; and, which is more, in certain frozen countries, as Pliny reports. The Mexicans esteem a low forehead a great beauty, and though …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 381.
Apology for Raymond Sebond the world they had no knowledge either of Bacchus or Ceres. If Pliny and Herodotus are to be believed, there are in certain places kinds …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 451.
Apology for Raymond Sebond abdita,All uncertain in reason, and concealed in the majesty of nature,❦ says Pliny. And Saint Augustine: Modus quo corporibus adhorent spiritus, omnino minis est, nec …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 591.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Chaldees kept a register of four hundred thousand and odd years, Aristotle, Pliny, and others, that Zoroaster flourished six thousand years before Plato’s time. Plato …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 697.
Apology for Raymond Sebond two senses shall we prove the true essence that we seek for? Pliny says there are certain sea-hares in the Indies that are poison to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 13 · ¶ 22.
On Judging of the Death of Another “A short death,” says Pliny, “is the sovereign good hap of human life.” People do not much …
- Book 2 · Chapter 14 · ¶ 1.
How Our Mind Hinders Itself opposite, might, peradventure, find some argument to second this bold saying of Pliny: solum certum nihil esse certi, et homine nihil miserius ant superbius.It is …
- Book 2 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 7.
On Not Faking an Illness us a little lengthen this chapter, and add another anecdote concerning blindness. Pliny reports of one who, dreaming he was blind, found himself so indeed …
- Book 2 · Chapter 25 · ¶ 7.
On Not Faking an Illness imagination might assist in this case, as I have said elsewhere, and Pliny seems to be of the same opinion; but it is more likely …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 31.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers health, as Plutarch says if I mistake not, with hare’s milk; as Pliny reports, that the Arcadians cured all manner of diseases with that of …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 48.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers hours, and that so austere and very wise countenance and carriage which Pliny himself so much derides. But they have, as I said, failed in …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 50.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers his sick patients in the natural waters of streams. No Roman till Pliny’s time had ever vouchsafed to practise physic; that office was only performed …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 92.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers think there are of these among the old Latin writers but two, Pliny and Celsus if these ever fall into your hands, you will find …
- Book 2 · Chapter 37 · ¶ 92.
On the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers art than I do; I but pinch it, they cut its throat. Pliny, among other things, twits them with this, that when they are at …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 193.
On Some Verses of Virgil shameful (mine, truly, are now shameful and pitiful). The Essenians, of whom Pliny speaks, kept up their country for several ages without either nurse or …