A Wide Net
Entries in the index of Charles Cotton's 1685 translation of Montaigne's essays:
- Ancient History how far respectable
- Ants Conference
- Arts taught to Men by other Animals
- Books, immortal Children
- Chearfulness Sign of Wisdom
- Chewing accounted unbecoming
- Clothes unknown to many Nations
- Compositions that smell of Oil and the Lamp
- Convenience, none without Inconvenience
- Counsel's Strength consists in Time
- Desire of gathering Riches has no Limits
- Dowry, great, Ruin of Families
- Dying for Fear of Death
- Elephant, discovering the Cheat of his Keeper
- Feet performing the Service of Hands
- Fortune often coincides with Reason
- Foxes judging of the Thickness of the Ice by hearing
- Goats trained up to give suck to Children
- Greyhound's Imagination
- Head uncovered in the Presence of the Gods, why
- Hedgehogs Foreknowledge of the Wind
- Hospitals for Beasts
- Kings and Coblers Souls cast in the same Mold
- Lice cracked with the Teeth
- Life, many Ways to get rid of it
- Magpie that imitated the Trumpet
- Monsters, whether there are such properly
- Nations that sleep and wake by Half Years
- Nobility, what
- Opinion gives Weight and Value to Things
- Parchment Scrolls tied about the Neck of Pericles
- Parents dead Bodies eaten by their Children
- Pedants despised
- Pleasures wheedle and caress only to strangle us
- Poverty obstinate
- Prince ought to be himself in the Field
- Revenge against inanimate Creatures
- Skin of a Man, sufficient Proof against Weather
- Trees buried in Winter
- Utility, public, too dearly purchased
- Women are more learned than Men in Love's Business
- Word of Men, their only Tye on one another
- World a Looking-Glass and Book
The full index runs to three volumes, added after Cotton's death by an editor who goes unnamed.
Based on a post on Futility Closet.