With much of occasional force, these Essays have sufficient solidity to make a book; and while they recall the wit of montaigne and the playfulness of Addison, they are animated by a better moral tone, and cover a large range of experience."
"Cattle and Cattle-breeders"
William M'Combie
In regard to the miscellaneous nature of the topics treated by him, and the frankness of his personal revelations, his truest modern parallel is montaigne,-the father of the prose essay, which has performed the function of the older Roman satire more completely than even the poetical satire of modern times.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
They were studied, imitated, and translated by some of the greatest poets of modern Europe; and they supplied their favourite texts and illustrations to moralists and humourists, from montaigne to the famous English essayists who flourished during the last century.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar