tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post2739504087460810655..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: In praise of Michel de Montaigne...Lallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-67668975318422326642011-01-06T14:39:00.777+00:002011-01-06T14:39:00.777+00:00Paul,
The world seems awash with these cunning k...Paul, <br /><br />The world seems awash with these cunning kindle devices. Do let me know how you fare with them, particularly the James Hogg.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-3758102933801139182011-01-06T14:37:45.097+00:002011-01-06T14:37:45.097+00:00Thanks for the suggestion, Ratzo. I shall be addin...Thanks for the suggestion, Ratzo. I shall be adding it to my bookshelf imminently...Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-60824823170897385952011-01-06T10:27:47.139+00:002011-01-06T10:27:47.139+00:00Thank you for these recommendations. I have downl...Thank you for these recommendations. I have downloaded these books onto my new Christmas present, the Kindle.<br /><br />For those with Kindles or other eBook devices, the books in question are available for free on the marvelous Project Gutenberg<br /><br />The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2276<br />The Essays of Montaigne - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3600Paulhttp://www.setindarkness.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-10434143077609599652011-01-05T14:40:23.174+00:002011-01-05T14:40:23.174+00:00Buchanan's De Jure regni Apud Scotos ought to ...Buchanan's De Jure regni Apud Scotos ought to be in every Scottish home (improbable as that sounds).<br /><br />There's an excellent version out recently, edited by Roger Mason -<br /><br />http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dialogue-Law-Kingship-Among-Scots/dp/1859284086/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1294238029&sr=8-6ratzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17512152633620132970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-70679719238364708762011-01-02T21:37:26.422+00:002011-01-02T21:37:26.422+00:00Ratzo,
I very much appreciate that timely reminde...Ratzo,<br /><br />I very much appreciate that timely reminder of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Buchanan" rel="nofollow">the learned George Buchanan.</a> Its not a period of history which I've made much of a study of. As I've remarked here before, in my education I received a scanty and eccentric historical impression, obsessed with the Germanic and totally neglecting the Scottish. Sometimes, I wish I'd begun my higher education with an MA rather than a law degree, to take the edge off of my ignorance.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-61110367559564564562011-01-02T14:00:56.676+00:002011-01-02T14:00:56.676+00:00"...Montaigne is often overlooked by those of..."...Montaigne is often overlooked by those of us subjected to a (mis)education, fixated on "Enlightenment" figures and boasting only a high-handed and ignorant condescension towards anybody who wrote and thought anything before the middle of the 1700s."<br /><br />As a fan of the essais and doubtless of pre-1700 figures such as Stair or Mackenzie, I'm sure you're aware of Montaigne's indebtedness to the leading scholar of his time: <br /><br />"Bucanan, que ie vis depuis a la suite de feu Monsieur le Mareschal de Brissac, me dit qu'il estoit apres a escrire de l'institution des enfans, & qu'il prenoit l'exemplaire de la mienne..."ratzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17512152633620132970noreply@blogger.com