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" As for my Essays, and some other particulars of that nature, I count them but as the recreations of my other studies, and in that sort purpose to continue them ; though I am not ignorant that those kind of writings would, with less pains and embracement,... "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works - Page 182
by Francis Bacon - 1860
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The Literary Essay in English

Eleanore (Sister Mary) - American essays - 1923 - 284 pages
...phases of Bacon's greatness, but we are concerned with him only as an essayist. Of his Essays he said, "I am not ignorant that those kind of writings would...to my name than those other which I have in hand," and so pleased with them was he that he increased their number from the original ten essays of 1597...
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The "impersonality" of Shakespeare

Edward George Harman - 1925 - 348 pages
...count them but as the recreations of my other studies, and in some sort purpose to continue them ; though I am not ignorant that those kind of writings...But I account the use that a man should seek of the 1 Since this was written I have taken the opportunity to notice this play in my book on Harvey and...
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Traversing the Democratic Borders of the Essay

Cristina Kirklighter - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 176 pages
...I count them but as the recreations of my other studies, and in that sort purpose to continue them; though I am not ignorant that those kind of writings...with less pains and embracement (perhaps), yield more luster and reputation to my name, than those other which I have in hand. (374) For Bacon, the essay...
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The Major Works

Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...I count them but as the recreations of my other studies, and in that sort purpose to continue them; though I am not ignorant that those kind of writings would, with less pains and embracement0 (perhaps), yield more lustre and reputation to my name, than those other which I have...
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The Many Faces of Philosophy: Reflections from Plato to Arendt

Amélie Oksenberg Rorty - Philosophy - 2003 - 544 pages
...I count them but as the recreations of my other studies, and in that sort purpose to continue them; though I am not ignorant that those kind of writings would with loss pains and embracement (perhaps) yield more lustre and reputation to my name than those other which...
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The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - English literature - 1859 - 852 pages
...donarelitr. 7 in open aittem illo de Legibus, ctijus initia pcrstritixi (ut dictum cvt). continue them1 ; though I am not ignorant that those kind of writings...the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man and not to go along with...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...count them but as the recreation of my other studies, and in that sort I purpose to continue them ; though I am not ignorant that those kind of writings...name than those other which I have in hand. But I count the use that a man should seek of the publishing his own writings before his death to be but...
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