 | William Francis C. Wigston - 1891 - 502 pagina’s
...— " Which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's Epistle to Lucilius, if you mark them well, are but Essays,...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles." This is important, because we find Bacon introducing his "Forty-seven Examples of Antitheta Berum"with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1897 - 448 pagina’s
...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 Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but Essays, — that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 290 pagina’s
...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 Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but Essays, — that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1904 - 800 pagina’s
...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 Lucilins, if you mark them well, are but essay.?, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 340 pagina’s
...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.' Montaigne's Essays had appeared in 1580. The first edition of Bacon's Essays was published in 1 597.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 272 pagina’s
...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 - 1910 - 528 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1910 - 542 pagina’s
...notes, set down rather significantly than curiously which I have called essays. The 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."... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1913 - 484 pagina’s
...the other 1 So Bacon writes in the dedication to the 1612 edition of his Essays : " The word essay 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." hand, held it to be one of the... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1914 - 510 pagina’s
...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 Lucilius, if one mark them well, are but essays — that is, dispersed meditations." And finally, Addison, whose... | |
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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... 
