Essays, Civil, Moral, Literary and Political, Written After the Manner of M. De Montagne: Interspersed With Characters, Portraits and Anecdotes (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Excerpt from Essays, Civil, Moral, Literary and Political, Written After the Manner of M. De Montagne: Interspersed With Characters, Portraits and Anecdotes

I love Montague, I read hint with Icafure; not that I think always like him, but becanfe e gives me room to reflefi, and to adopt a like or a contrary opinion to that of his own. Madame de Sevigfl) raid, when {he read his Efl'ays, the imagined the was walking with him in her garden, and that they were converfing together. I think Io likewife; vid I find that Montague appears frequently to advance propolitions in order to bring on a little difpnte which animates converfation, and ren ders it more lively and interefiing: This is alluredly a good method of engaging the attention of the reader. I will {hive to follow lt', in compofiog a book as irreguo' lar, as full of loofe propofitions, as problematical, and as full of paradoxes, as that of Montague. I will treat of every thing which falls under my pen, or comes 'into my mind 3 Spring from branch to branch, exhau'll: no fulfieek, and return at different times to the fame. I wifh my book mould be read, as it was compofed, in moments of leii'ure 3 that it ihould be taken up and laid'

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