Twenty-Nine Essays [Selected Essays] (The Franklin Library)

481 pp. Burgundy cloth binding with gilt decoration and gilt edges, decorative endpapers. Includes: Introduction; To the Reader; On Man: Of Liars; That the Taste of Good and Evil Depends in Large Part on the Opinion We Have of Them; That Our Happiness Must Not Be Judged Until After Our Death; That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die; One Man's Profit Is Another Man's Harm; Of Friendship; Of Moderation; Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment; Of Age; Of Conscience; Of Books; That Our Desire is Increased by Difficulty; Of Giving the Lie; Of Freedom of Conscience; Of Solitude; Against Do-Nothingness; Of Virtue; Of Anger. On Principle: Of Custom, and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law; Of the Education of Children; It is Folly to Measure the True and False by Our Own Capacity; Of Cannibals; Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes; Of Sumptuary Laws; Of Ancient Customs; Of Evil Means Employed to a Good End; On Some Verse of Virgil; Of the Disadvantage of Greatness. On Knowledge and Pride: Apology for Raymond Sebond.