 I do now publish my Essays, which of all my other works have been most current, for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.  Select Essays - Page 128by Samuel Johnson - 1889Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...for your fortune and merit both have been eminent; and you have planted things that are like to last. I do now publish my Essays; which, of all my other...seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms. I have enlarged them both in number and weight ; so that they are indeed a new work : I thought it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...for your fortune and merit both have been eminent; and you have planted things that are like to last. I do now publish my Essays ; which, of all my other...seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms. I have enlarged them both in number and weight; so that they are indeed a new work : I thought it therefore... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...for your fortune and merit both have been eminent; and you have planted things that are like to last. I do now publish my Essays ; which, of all my other...seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms. I have enlarged them both in number and weight ; so that they are indeed a new work. I thought it therefore... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...for your fortune and merit both have been eminent; and you have planted things that are like to last. I do now publish my Essays ; which, of all my other...seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms. I have enlarged them both in number and weight ; so that they are indeed a new work. I thought it therefore... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...your fortune and merit both have been eminent : and you have planted things that are like to last. I do now publish my Essays ; which of all my other...current : for that, as it seems, they come home to mens busi-r ness and bosoms. I have enlarged them both in number and weight ; so that they are indeed... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pages
...your fortune and merit both have been eminent ; and you have planted things that are like to last. I do now publish my Essays ; which of all my other...seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms. I have enlarged them both in number and weight ; so that they are indeed a new work : I thought it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 598 pages
...For your fortune and merit both have been eminent: and you have planted things that are like to last. I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other...seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms. I have enlarged them both in number and weight; so that they are indeed a new work. I thought it therefore... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1829 - 570 pages
...in the hand of those only who appear to me destined to be great. NEWTON. He says in his Preface, " I do now publish my Essays, which of all my other works have been most current." How can the very thing of which you are speaking be another ? BARROW. This is a chasm in logic, into... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 450 pages
...mortified, when in his dedication of the Essays he observed, that ' of all my other works my Essays have been most current ; for that as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.' It is too much to hope to find in a vast and profound inventor a writer also who bestows immortality... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 406 pages
...mortified, when in his dedication of the Essays he observed, that " of all my other works my Essays have been most current ; for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms." It is too much to hope to find in a vast and profound inventor a writer also who bestows immortality... | |
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