 | Francis Bacon - Philosophers - 1868 - 462 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual services ; 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 one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophers - 1868 - 486 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual services ; 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 one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophers - 1868 - 490 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual services ; 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 Lucilins, if one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 486 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual services; 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 Lucilins, if one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1868 - 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... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1863 - 550 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... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1871 - 630 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."- — -Bacon. A TREATISE (Fr. traiter, to treat) is more formal and scientific than an essay. As an essay... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - English language - 1876 - 340 pages
...the writer and leisure in the reader ; . . . . which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly...Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient. — BACON, to Prince Henry. Essays not being placed as at a feast, but placing themselves as at an... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 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...Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient. LORD BACON : Essays, Preface. In every period of English literary history, authors have sought to hold... | |
 | James Spedding - Great Britain - 1878 - 742 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual services ; 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 one mark them well, are but Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of... | |
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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;... 
