| Francis Bacon - 1868 - 486 pages
...called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient. For Seneca's epistles to Lucilins, if one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed...know cannot be worthy of your Highness, for what can he worthy of you ? But my hope is, they may be as grains of salt, that will rather give you an appetite... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1868 - 486 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 Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1868 - 466 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 Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of... | |
| Henry Allon - 1863 - 552 pages
...brief notes, 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1868 - 462 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 Lucilins, if one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersedjrieditations, though conveyed in... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1868 - 490 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 Lucilins, if one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in... | |
| Charles John Smith - 1871 - 630 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."- — -Bacon. A TREATISE (Fr. traiter, to treat) is more formal and scientific than an essay. As an essay... | |
| James Spedding - 1878 - 742 pages
...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 epistles. These labors of mine I know cannot be worthy of your Highness, for what can be worthy of you? But my hope... | |
| James Spedding - 1878 - 824 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 Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of... | |
| William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pages
...writing," and he desired to give the world a correct version of hie work. The word Essays, he says, "is late, but the thing is ancient, for Seneca's Epistles...meditations, though conveyed in the form of Epistles." " The transcendent strength of Bacon's mind is visible," say» Hallam, "m the whole tcnour of these... | |
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