Crossword-Solution: MONTAIGNE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Montaigne | n. | A mountain. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “MONTAIGNE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Essais" author | 1 answer |
| Essayist who wrote (in French) "Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it" | 1 answer |
| Essayist whose motto was "Que sais-je?" | 1 answer |
| French Renaissance essayist | 1 answer |
| FRENCH essayist | 2 answers |
| ENGLISH poem, famed | 24 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with MONTAIGNE (5)
There can be none more original than Montaigne, neither could any be more unlike Cicero; yet no craftsman can fail to see how much the one must have tried in his time to imitate the other.
While Calvin is putting everybody exactly right in his _Institutes_, and hot-headed Knox is thundering in the pulpit, Montaigne is already looking at the other side in his library in Perigord, and predicting that they will find as much to quarrel about in the Bible as they had found already in the Church.
Belonging to the race of Scott and Dumas, of the romantic narrators and creators, Stevenson belonged no less to that of Montaigne and the literary egotists.
And so in a less degree, but no less truly, than the spirit of Montaigne lives on in the delightful Essays, that of Charles of Orleans survives in a few old songs and old account-books; and it is still in the choice of the reader to make this duke’s acquaintance, and, if their humours suit, become his friend.
Here aft, weel neukit by my lane, Wi’ Horace, or perhaps Montaigne, The mornin’ hours hae come an’ gane Abüne my heid— I wadnae gi’en a chucky-stane For a’ I’d read.
Quotes with MONTAIGNE (3)
Let's say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don't know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.
Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.
Miaow Consider me. I sit here like Tiberius, inscrutable and grand. I will let "I dare not" wait upon "I would" and bear the twanglingof your small guitarbecause you are my owland foster me with milk. Why wet my paw? Just keep me in a bagand no one knows the truth. I am familiar with witchesand stand a better chance in hell than youfor I can dance on hot bricks, leap your heightand land on all fours. I am the servant of the Living God. I worship in my way. Look into these sli…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1990–2007).