Complete Works, vol. 4

This is volume 4 from the Complete Works. It contains many of his letters, An Essay on Taste, The Temple of Gnidus, and other shorter pieces.
The Complete Works of M. de Montesquieu (London: T. Evans, 1777), 4 vols. Vol. 4.
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Table of Contents
- FAMILIAR LETTERS. by PRESIDENT DE MONTESQUIEU.
- To Father Cerati* of the Congregation of the Orators of Saint Philip at Rome.
- To the Same.
- To Monsieur L’Abbé Venuti*, at Clerac.
- To the Abbé Nicolini*, at Florence.
- To Mr. Cerati, at Pisa.
- To Abbé Venuti at Clerac.
- To Abbé de Guasco, at Turin.
- To the Count of Guasco, Colonel of Foot.
- To the Abbé de Guasco.
- To the Same.
- To the Same.
- To the Countess de Pontac.
- To Mr. Cerati.
- To Abbé de Guasco at Clerac.
- To the Same.
- To the Same.
- To the Same.
- To the Same.
- To the same Abbé de Guasco.
- To the Same.
- To Mr. Cerati.
- To Abbé de Guasco, at Aix.
- LETTER XXIII.
- To the Same.
- To the Same.
- To the Same.
- To Mr. Cerati.
- To Prince Charles Edward.
- To the Grand Prior Solar, Ambassador from Malta, at Rome.
- To the Abbé and Count de Guasco, at Paris.
- A Billet to the Same.
- To Mr. Cerati.
- To Abbé Venuti.
- To the Abbé Count de Guasco.
- To the Abbé Venuti, at Bourdeaux.
- To Mr. Cerati.
- To Abbé Venuti.
- To Abbé Venuti.
- To the Abbé Count de Guasco.
- To Abbé de Guasco.
- To the Same.
- To the Same.
- To the Same, at Bourdeaux.
- To the Same.
- To the Same Abbé de Guasco.
- To the Same at Vienna.
- To the same Abbé de Guasco at Vienna.
- To the Same, at Verona.
- To the Same.
- To the Same, at Naples.
- To the Same.
- To Mr. Cerati.
- To the Abbé Marquis Nicolini.
- To Abbé Count de Guasco.
- To the Same.
- To the Auditor Bertolini, at Florence.
- To Abbé Count de Guasco.
- A Billet to the Same.
- To the Grand Prior Solar, at Turin.
- The Fragment of a Letter from M. de Montesquieu, to the King of Poland, Duke of Lorraine, to solicit his Majesty for a place in the Academy of Nantz.
- Fragment of the King of Poland’s Answer, to the foregoing Letter.
- To M. de Solignac, Secretary to the Literary Society at Nantz.
- From M. de Montesquieu. To the Author of a short View of the Philosophical Works of Lord Bolingbroke.
- To the Dutchess of Aiguillon.
- From the Dutchess of Aiguillon, to Abbé de Guasco.
- An article taken from a Letter of Baron Secondat de Montesquieu, to the Abbé Count de Guasco.
- Article of a Letter to the Same.
- MISCELLANEOUS PIECES OF M. DE SECONDAT, BARON DE MONTESQUIEU.
- AN ORATION Pronounced the 24th of January, 1728. by PRESIDENT MONTESQUIEU: When he was received into the French Academy, in the room of the late M. de SACY.
- AN ESSAY UPON TASTE, IN SUBJECTS OF NATURE, AND OF ART.
- A FRAGMENT.
- OF THE PLEASURES OF THE SOUL.
- OF THE MENTAL FACULTIES*.
- OF CURIOSITY.
- OF THE PLEASURES OF ORDER.
- OF THE PLEASURES OF VARIETY.
- OF THE PLEASURES OF SYMMETRY.
- OF CONTRASTS.
- OF THE PLEASURES OF SURPRIZE.
- OF DIFFERENT CAUSES THAT PRODUCE SENSATION.
- OF SENSIBILITY.
- OF DELICACY.
- OF THE JE NE SCAIS QUOI.
- THE PROGRESSION OF SURPRIZE.
- OF BEAUTIES WHICH RESULT FROM AN EMBARRASSMENT OF THE SOUL.
- THE TEMPLE OF GNIDUS.
- THE PREFACE.
- CANTO I.
- CANTO II.
- CANTO III.
- CANTO IV.
- CANTO V.
- CANTO VI.
- CANTO VII.
- CUPID DISTRESSED.
- LYSIMACHUS.
- THE ANALYSIS OF THE SPIRIT OF LAWS. By M. D’ALEMBERT.
- A DEFENCE OF THE SPIRIT OF LAWS. To which are added, SOME EXPLANATIONS.
- PART I.
- I.
- OBJECTION I.
- THE ANSWER.
- OBJECTION II.
- THE ANSWER.
- OBJECTION III.
- THE ANSWER.
- II.
- OBJECTION I.
- THE ANSWER.
- OBJECTION II.
- ANSWER.
- OBJECTION III.
- ANSWER.
- OBJECTION IV.
- ANSWER.
- OBJECTION V.
- ANSWER.
- OBJECTION VI.
- ANSWER.
- OBJECTION VII.
- ANSWER.
- OBJECTION VIII.
- ANSWER.
- OBJECTION IX.
- ANSWER.
- OBJECTION X.
- ANSWER.
- PART II.
- THE GENERAL IDEA.
- OF THE COUNSELS OF RELIGION.
- OF POLYGAMY.
- ON CLIMATE.
- OF TOLERATION.
- OF CELIBACY.
- A PARTICULAR ERROR COMMITTED BY THE CRITIC.
- OF MARRIAGE.
- OF USURY.
- “OF MARITIME USURY.
- PART III.
- SOME EXPLANATIONS OF THE SPIRIT OF LAWS.
- I.
- II.
- ANSWER.
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