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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—E

Essays

Lord Bacon's essays were the first in English that bore the name.

“To write just treatises requireth leisure in the writer and leisure in the reader ... which is the cause which hath made me choose to write certain brief notes ... which I have called essays.” —Dedication to Prince Henry.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Essenes
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