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" Highness' princely affairs, nor in regard of my continual services ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is... "
Francis Bacon und seine geschichtliche Stellung: ein analytischer Versuch - Page 159
by Hans Heussler - 1889 - 199 pages
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Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on ...

Nathan Drake - 1838 - 744 pages
...certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word at brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter arc but essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles. "£ This invaluable...
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Shakespeare [sic] and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ...

Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 pages
...notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, *hich I have called Essays. The word is late, lut the thing is ancient; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, if you mark them well, are but essays, that is, dis[«•rsod meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles." ф This invaluable 4l>rk, in a...
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Shakspeare and his times

Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pages
...curiously, •'•"h I have called Essays. The word is late, l>ut the thing is ancient; for V'ia's Epistles to Lucilius, if you mark them well, are but essays, that is, dis• '-••) meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles." ± This invaluable r*. in a...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...brief notes, set down rather significantly than anxiously." " The word," he continues, " is late, hut the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, if you mark them well, are hut Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of" Epistles." As for the present...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...alludes to them thus in the dedication to Prince Henry, in 1612 : " The word (Essays)," says he, " is late, but .the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's...mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed 1 Montaigne says, in his author's address to the render: — " le veulx qu'on m'y veoye en mnfa^on...
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A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 pages
...of them. "To write just treatises requires leisure In the writer, and leisure In tho reader. . . . The word [Essays] is late, but the thing Is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucllms, if you mark them well, are but Essays, that Is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed In...
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The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His ..., Volume 4

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 486 pages
...certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient. For Seneca's epistles to Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 38

Henry Allon - 1863 - 552 pages
...set down rather sig' nificantly than curiously, which I have called Essaies,' and adds, ' The word is late, but the thing is ancient. For Seneca's 'Epistles to Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but Essaies; ' that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form...
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The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His ..., Volume 4

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 466 pages
...certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient. For Seneca's epistles to Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of...
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An Account of the Life and Times of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

James Spedding - 1878 - 742 pages
...certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient. For Seneca's epistles to Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of...
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