The essays
or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, ... With a table of the colours of good and evil. And a discourse of the wisdom of the ancients. To which is added in this edition the character of Queen Elizabeth.
by Francis Bacon
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"Bacon's Essays have attracted an eager readership since their publication in 1625. They sum up a lifetime's observations on the whole range of human activity, by one of the keenest minds of the Renaissance. In their third and final revision Bacon designed the Essays to fill some of the gaps he had diagnosed in the study of mankind, such as the formative influences on individual behaviour of birth and temperament, of environment, social exchange, leisure, business, and politics.
Bacon's approach varies greatly from essay to essay, juxtaposing systematic analysis with brilliant apercus, in styles ranging from the detached and laconic to the passionately engaged, especially when expressing his moral beliefs."--BOOK JACKET. "This closely annotated edition is based on Brian Vickers's Oxford Authors text and includes appendices containing extracts from the Essays (1597), the Essays (1612) and 'Antitheses of Things' (1623)."--BOOK JACKET.
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Aphorisms and apothegms, Classical Mythology, Early works to 1800, English essays, Good and evil, Logic, Methodology, Modern Philosophy, Renaissance Philosophy, Science, Translations into French, Translations into Italian, Translations into Latin (Medieval and Modern Latin), Utopias, Early modern, Philosophy, English literature, Fiction, Essays, Essays (single author), English essays, history and criticism, Fiction, short stories (single author), Conduct of life, Early works to 1900, Translations into Latin (Medieval and modern)Showing 11 featured editions. View all 188 editions?
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The essayes or counsels, civill and morall
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Essays.
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Essays: or, Counsels civil and moral; Edited with introd. and notes by A.S. Gaye.
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The essays: or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, ... With a table of the colours of good and evil. And a discourse of the wisdom of the ancients. To which is added in this edition the character of Queen Elizabeth.
1706, printed by H. Clark, for R. Chiswell, S. Smith, T. Bennet, B. Walford [and 3 others in London]
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The 'Table of colours' has separate pagination and half-title; 'The wisdom of the ancients' which is translated by Sir Arthur Gorges has separate pagination and a titlepage dated 1705; register is continuous.
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 3616, no. 02).
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