 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 290 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... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 478 pages
...leisure in 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." The literary style of the essay varies, determined always by the character of its thought, the subject-matter.... | |
 | How - 1901 - 130 pages
...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." An essay in the time of Bacon was a much more unpretending title than it is now. "It conveyed much... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 474 pages
...leisure in 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. » The literary style of the essay varies, determined always by the character of its thought, the subject-matter.... | |
 | Brander Matthews - American essays - 1902 - 296 pages
...not far below the surface. One lexicographer quotes from Bacon his assertion that he chose "to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called essays," following this with the explanation that "the word is late, but the thing is ancient." How ancient... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1904 - 328 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 410 pages
...exposition of topics for the most part weighty. "Though the word is late," he writes to the Prince of Wales, "the thing is ancient; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilius,...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... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1904 - 800 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 Lucilins, if you mark them well, are but essay.?, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Essays - 1908 - 272 pages
...whose Essays appeared in 1580. " The word," says Bacon, in the cancelled dedication to Prince Henry, " 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... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English literature - 1910 - 528 pages
...word," he continues, "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. " That Bacon had another besides this ancient model is not to be questioned, although he quotes Montaigne... | |
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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;... 
