 | Henry Hallam - 1847 - 490 pages
...word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucillus, if you mark them well, arc but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistlrs." The resemblance, at all events, to Montaigne is not greater than might be expected in two... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 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...dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of ppistles. These labours of mine I know cannot be worthy of your Highness ; for what can be worthy of... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1854 - 620 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... | |
 | William Hague - 1855 - 276 pages
...observes that treatises -iwiuire leisure; and that as of that he had but little, -rote essays. He adds, " The word is late, but the « thing is ancient; for...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles." A similar remark may be applied to modern Reviews, which appear in the form, now of an essay, like... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 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 Lueilius, if you mark them well, are but essays ; that is, dispersed meditations though conveyed in... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1858 - 1022 pages
...just treatises requires leisure in tho writer, and leisure In the render. . . . The word [Essay я] Is late, but the thing is ancient; for Seneca's Epistles...dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of Epistle«." — From Oie intended Preface to the "¿d edition. This is tho work by which Bacon is best... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1028 pages
...reader. . . . The word [Essays] is late, but the thinjc is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilfus, if you mark them well, are but Essays, that Is, dispersed...meditations, though conveyed in the form of Epistles." — From Uic intended I*itface to tA« ' . This is tho work by which Bacon is best known to the majority... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1859 - 1030 pages
...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 the form of Epistles." — Fi-om the intended Preface to the 2rf fditvm. This is the work by which Bacon is best known to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 408 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...meditations though conveyed in the form of epistles. These labors of mine, I know, cannot be worthy of your Highness, for what can be worthy of you ? But my hope... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 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 Lucflius, if you mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in... | |
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Highness's princely affairs nor in regard of my continual service ; 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... 
