William Hay, Deformity an Essay, Complete Essay Text

Note: I have taken the initiative to correct the typos in this essay to improve its readability and comprehension for students. However, there is a possibility that errors may still exist. If you happen to come across any, please feel free to mention them in the "join conversation" section below, and I will do my best to rectify them. It is offensive for a man to speak much of himself, and few men can do it with so good a grace as Montaigne. I wish I could, or that I could be half so entertaining. The Marquis of Halifax, in a letter to Charles Cotton, Esq., who translated Montaigne's Essays, says it is the book in the world with which he is best entertained, and that Montaigne did not write for praise but to give the world a true picture of himself and of mankind. My subject, however, will be my apology, and I am sure it will draw no envy upon me. Bodily deformity is visible to every eye, but the effects of it are known to very few, intimately known to none but those who …