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Excerpt from The Essays; Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon
This edition of the Essays was undertaken by me at the suggestion of Mr. J. R. Thursfield, who had put together materials for notes on the first twenty-three Essays, but was unable, in the stress of other literary engagements, to carry out his design. Mr. Thursfield's name is sufficient warrant for what the completed edition would have been in his hands. His design, as I under stand it, was to prepare an edition for the use of scholars and advanced students, and especially to show from contemporary translations the sense in which doubtful passages had been understood in Bacon's own day. These points I have kept in mind. But the line followed in Mr. Thursfield's manuscript notes was not in many ways the same as that which I have taken. He entered much more fully than I have done into the history and derivation of words, and into grammatical and philological disquisitions. This is a line of research for which I have no taste, and which I could not have pursued with any pleasure. It has, moreover, been rendered practically super?uous by the publication of the 'english Dictionary.' This was not and could not have been anticipated by Mr. Thursfield when he began collecting materials for his notes.
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