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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... "
The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay - Page 44
by Francis Bacon - 1838
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie ..., Volume 11

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...
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The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His ..., Volume 4

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...
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The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His ..., Volume 4

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...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 38

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...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie ..., Volume 11

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...
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The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His ..., Volume 4

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...
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Synonyms Discriminated: A Complete Catalogue of Synonymous Words in the ...

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...
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An Account of the Life and Times of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

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...
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An Account of the Life and Times of Francis Bacon: Extracted from ..., Volume 1

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...
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Dictiony of English literature

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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