Montaigne, Essay 25.: ” So many mutations of states and kingdoms, and so many turns and revolutions of public fortune, will make us wise enough to make no great wonder of our own. So many great names, so many famous victories and conquests drowned and swallowed in oblivion, render our hopes ridiculous of eternising our [...]
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These signs were incised into clay tablets, sometimes shaped like the page of a book, but more often like a palmleaf. Linear B was also written on clay labels and painted onto the side of pottery vessels, and it is likely that it was written with pen and ink on papyrus or skin, although no [...]
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Montaigne, Essay 24, Of Pedantry: “When the Goths overran Greece, the only thing that preserved all the libraries from the fire was, that some one possessed them with an opinion that they were to leave this kind of furniture entire to the enemy, as being most proper to divert them from the exercise of arms, [...]
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Montaigne, Essay 24, Of Pedantry: ” If we see a shoemaker with his shoes out at the toes, we say, ’tis no wonder; for, commonly, none go worse shod than they. In like manner, experience often presents us a physician worse physicked, a divine less reformed, and (constantly) a scholar of less sufficiency, than other [...]
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