 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 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... | |
 | English language - 1859 - 684 pages
...the writer, and leisure in the reader ; . . . which is the cause which hath made me choose to write certain brief notes set down rather significantly...Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient. ' ' From this dedication we gather that, little as *' essays" now can be considered a word of modesty,... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - English language - 1859 - 256 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause which hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly...Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient. Bacon, Intended Dedication of his Essays to Prince Henry. Yet modestly he does his work survey, And... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 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 - American literature - 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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1860 - 264 pages
...the writer, and leisure in the reader ; . . . which is the cause which hath made me choose to write certain brief notes set down rather significantly...Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient." Prom these words, and others which I have omitted in the quotation, we further gather that, little... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1861 - 408 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1863 - 264 pages
...the writer, and leisure in the reader ; . . . which is the cause which hath made me choose to write certain brief notes set down rather significantly...Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient." From these words, and others which I have omitted in the quotation, we further gather that, little... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1866 - 260 pages
...the writer, and leisure in the reader ; . . . which is the cause which hath made me choose to write certain brief notes set down rather significantly...Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient." From these words, and others which I have omitted in the quotation, we further gather that, little... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...1606. But the enlarged work was published in 1612, and dedicated to Prince Henry. He calls them, in his dedication, ' certain brief notes, set down rather...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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... 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 ancient;... 
