Michel De Montaigne
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I am less a maker of books than of anything. I have always desired just enough of a fortune to satisfy real and pressing conveniences, not to turn such a competence into a magazine and store for my heirs. ' 2 Style was essential to him the primal equipment of a writer. By culling here and there in the Essays we could easily collect a perfect compendium for authors, an anthology for critics. He has said most things that can 1 Essais, ii. 6: 'De 1'Exercitation. ' 2 Essais, ii. 37 : ' De la Ressem...blance des enfants aux pres. ' 154 MONTAIGNE THE MAN be said on style. And style, as he conceived it, could not exist without two qualities clearness and simplicity. C It was, ' he wrote, c with good reason that childhood and sim- plicity were so much commended by Truth itself ' ; l and the words, though they bore no literary import, might be taken as a definition of Montaigne's literary ideal.
' I hear people excuse themselves, ' he says elsewhere, ' for not being able to express them- selves ; they make a show of having their heads full of a great many fine things, but for lack of eloquence, say they, they cannot bring them out.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I am less a maker of books than of anything. I have always desired just enough of a fortune to satisfy real and pressing conveniences, not to turn such a competence into a magazine and store for my heirs. ' 2 Style was essential to him the primal equipment of a writer. By culling here and there in the Essays we could easily collect a perfect compendium for authors, an anthology for critics. He has said most things that can 1 Essais, ii. 6: 'De 1'Exercitation. ' 2 Essais, ii. 37 : ' De la Ressem...blance des enfants aux pres. ' 154 MONTAIGNE THE MAN be said on style. And style, as he conceived it, could not exist without two qualities clearness and simplicity. C It was, ' he wrote, c with good reason that childhood and sim- plicity were so much commended by Truth itself ' ; l and the words, though they bore no literary import, might be taken as a definition of Montaigne's literary ideal.
' I hear people excuse themselves, ' he says elsewhere, ' for not being able to express them- selves ; they make a show of having their heads full of a great many fine things, but for lack of eloquence, say they, they cannot bring them out.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Edith Helen Sichel to read onlineMoreLess
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