Our readingWhat is a korrent?
People call barbarous whatever is not customary in their own country
Drawn from what Michel de Montaigne said
Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Michel de Montaigne said
Now, to return to my subject, I find that there is nothing barbarous and savage in this nation, by anything that I can gather, excepting, that every one gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
Where this was said
↗Essays (tr. Charles Cotton, ed. W. C. Hazlitt, 1877)gutenberg.org
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I hold this tooShared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.