 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 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 Lscilius, if one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in... | |
 | William Hague - 1854 - 280 pages
...and that as of that he had but little, he wrote essays. He adds, " The word is late, but the tiling is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, if...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... | |
 | 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 - 1985 - 336 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... | |
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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... 
