| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...certain brief notes, set down rather signi" ficantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. " The word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for "...labours of mine, I know, cannot be worthy of your a highness, for what can be worthy of you ? But my " hope is, they may be as grains of salt, that will... | |
| 1837 - 398 pages
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| Nathan Drake - 1838 - 744 pages
...write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. brook that 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... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1839 - 810 pages
...dedication, " 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...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles." The resemblance, at all events, to Montaigne is not greater than might be expected in two men equally... | |
| Henry Hallam - 1839 - 428 pages
...notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is later but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles to...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles." The resemblance, at all events, to Montaigne is not greater than might be expected in two men equally... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...write 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 |л ,ci | ins- if you mark them well, are but essays, that is, dispersed meditations though conveyed... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...describe as only " brief notes, set down rather significantly than anxiously." " The word," he coutinr " is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles...meditations, though conveyed in the form of Epistles." As for the present compositions, he adds, he has " endeavoured to make them not vulgar, but of a nature... | |
| 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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