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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)Book Details
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A translation by Sir Arthur Gorges of: Bacon, Francis. The essaies of Sr Francis Bacon Knight, the Kings Solliciter Generall.
Quire A is in two settings; translator's surname on title page misprinted: "George" in Bodleian copy or corrected to "Gorges" in other copies; all copies of the latter have "Franc̜ois" in line 10 of title page, and it appears that the "Francais" reproduced in R.W. Gibson's Bacon bibliography, no. 45, is from a doctored copy--STC.
First leaf blank?.
Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.
STC (2nd ed.) 1152.
Available electronically as part of Early English books online.
Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1961. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 871:05).
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