 The word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's epistles to Lucilius, if you mark them well, are but essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles.  Letters - Page 44by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...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...worthy of your highness, for what can be worthy of you 1 But my hope is, they may be as grains of salt, that will rather give you an appetite than offend... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825
...rather signi" ficantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. " The word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for " Seneca's epistles to Lucilius,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 380 pages
...down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. 1 be word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's epistles to Lucilius, if...worthy of your highness, for what can be worthy of you 1 But my hope is, they may be as grains of salt, that will rather give you an appetite than offend... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1838 - 660 pages
...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 you mark them well, arc but essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles. "£ This invaluable... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 810 pages
...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...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 - 246 pages
...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...know, cannot be worthy of your Highness, for what can bfi worthy of you ? But my hope is, they may be as grains of salt, that will rather give you an appetite... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 968 pages
...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 - 692 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
...notes, set down rather significantly than anxiously." " The word," he coutinr " is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, if...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
...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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