 | James Spedding - Great Britain - 1878 - 824 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...time in the writer and leisure in the reader, which is the cause which hath made me choose to write o LORD BACON : Essays, Preface. In every period of English literary history, authors have sought to hold... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1882 - 370 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...called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient.1 From this dedication we gather that, little as ' essays ' now can be considered a word of... | |
 | John Ogilvie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 714 pages
...hath made me choose to write certain brief notes set down rather significantly than curiously, whicb I have called Essays. The word is late but the thing is ancient Bacon. 3. A trial or experiment; a test. I hope, for my brother's justification, be wrote this but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 468 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 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 V But... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 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...is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, if yon mark them well, are but Essays ; that is, dispersed meditations though conveyed in the form of... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - England - 1885 - 540 pages
..."just treatises," implying that his work must be expected to be a little disconnected and abrupt : "Certain brief notes, set down rather significantly...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... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - England - 1885 - 562 pages
..."just treatises," implying that his work must lw expected to be a little disconnected and abrupt : "Certain brief notes, set down rather significantly...but the thing is ancient. For Seneca's Epistles to Lueilius, if one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed nvdttationx, though conveved in... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1885 - 368 pages
...time in 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 than curiously, which I have called essays.— LORD BACON. The essay writer is the lay preacher upon that vague mass of doctrine which we dignify... | |
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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;... 
