 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1838 - 864 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write to serve you, else life is but the shadow of death to Your Majesty's most devoted serv " Essaye." The word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's epistles to Lucilius, if you mark... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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...but the thing is ancient; for Seneca's Epistles to |л ,ci | ins- if you mark them well, are but essays, that is, dispersed meditations though conveyed... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1843 - 970 pages
...notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, *hich I have called Essays. The word is late, lut the thing is ancient; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, if you mark them well, are but essays, that is, dis[«•rsod meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles." ф This invaluable 4l>rk, in a... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pages
...curiously, •'•"h I have called Essays. The word is late, l>ut the thing is ancient; for V'ia's Epistles to Lucilius, if you mark them well, are but essays, that is, dis• '-••) meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles." ± This invaluable r*. in a... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...describe as only " brief notes, set down rather significantly than anxiously." " The word," he coutinr " is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles...meditations, though conveyed in the form of Epistles." As for the present compositions, he adds, he has " endeavoured to make them not vulgar, but of a nature... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...brief notes, set down rather significantly than anxiously." " The word," he continues, " is late, hut the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius, if you mark them well, are hut Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of" Epistles." As for the present... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write `3 z҄ 5o # ( Ա w -^ fQ iz ' q C F a These labours of mine, I know, cannot be worthy of your highness, for what can be worthy of you ? But... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 870 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 labours of mine, I know, cannot be worthy of your highness, for what can be worthy of you? But... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write all." ppistles. These labours of mine I know cannot be worthy of your Highness ; for what can be worthy of... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1852 - 278 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 as... | |
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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;... 
