Project Gutenberg's The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 5, by Michel de MontaigneThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 5Author: Michel de MontaigneRelease Date: September 17, 2006 [EBook #3585]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE, VOLUME 5 ***Produced by David WidgerESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNETranslated by Charles CottonEdited by William Carew Hazilitt1877CONTENTS OF VOLUME 5.XXV. Of the education of children. XXVI. That it is folly to measure truth and error by our own capacity.CHAPTER XXVOF THE EDUCATION OF CHILDRENTO MADAME DIANE DE FOIX, Comtesse de GursonI never yet saw that father, but let his son be never so decrepit or deformed, would not, notwithstanding, own him: not,nevertheless, if he were not totally besotted, and blinded with his paternal affection, that he did not well enough discernhis defects; but that with all defaults he was still his. Just so, I see better than any other, that all I write here are but the idlereveries of a man that has only nibbled upon the outward crust of sciences in his nonage, and only retained a general andformless image of them; who has got a little snatch of everything and nothing of the whole, 'a la Francoise'. For I ...
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