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The Essays of Montaigne

CHAPTER XXV
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25.] By this method of instruction, my young pupil will be much more and better employed than his fellows of the college are.

But as the steps we take in walking to and fro in a gallery, though three times as many, do not tire a man so much as those we employ in a formal journey, so our lesson, as it were accidentally occurring, without any set obligation of time or place, and falling naturally into every action, will insensibly insinuate itself.

By which means our very exercises and recreations, running, wrestling, music, dancing, hunting, riding, and fencing, will prove to be a good part of our study.

I would have his outward fashion and mien, and the disposition of his limbs, formed at the same time with his mind.

'Tis not a soul, 'tis not a body that we are training up, but a man, and we ought not to divide him.


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