 | Francis Bacon - 1825
...certain brief notes, set down rather signi" ficantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. " The word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for "...labours of mine, I know, cannot be worthy of your a highness, for what can be worthy of you ? But my " hope is, they may be as grains of salt, that will... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1838 - 660 ˹éÒ
...write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. brook that brawls along this wood : To the which...place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter arc but essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles. "£ This invaluable... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839
...dedication, " certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles." The resemblance, at all events, to Montaigne is not greater than might be expected in two men equally... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839
...notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is later but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistles to...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles." The resemblance, at all events, to Montaigne is not greater than might be expected in two men equally... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840
...write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late 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 - 1843 - 660 ˹éÒ
...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 - 660 ˹éÒ
...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 - 1846 - 730 ˹éÒ
...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 - 1846
...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846
...is late, hut the thing is ancient; for Seneca's Epistles to Lucilins, if you mark them well, are hut Essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of Epistles." As for the present compositions, he adds, he has " endeavoured to make them not vulgar, hut of anature... | |
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Highness's 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... 
