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Essays of Francis Bacon
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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY VERY GOOD LORD THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM HIS GRACE, LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND EXCELLENT LORD: SALOMON saies; A good Name is as a precious oyntment; And I assure my selfe, such wil your Graces Name bee, with Posteritie. For your Fortune, and Merit both, have been Eminent. And you have planted Things, that are like to last. I doe now publish my Essayes; which, of all my other workes, have beene most Currant: For that, as it seemes, they come home, to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes. I have enlarged them, both in Number, and Weight; So that they are indeed a New Worke. I thought it therefore agreeable, to my Affection, and Obligation to your Grace, to prefix your Name before them, both in English, and in Latine. For I doe conceive, that the Latine Volume of them, (being in the Universall Language) may last, as long as Bookes last. My Instauration, I dedicated to the King: My Historie of Henry the Seventh, (which I have now also translated into Latine) and my Portions of Naturall History, to the Prince: And these I dedicate to your Grace; Being of the best Fruits, that by the good Encrease, which God gives to my Pen and Labours, I could yeeld
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Table of contents
- THE ESSAYS OR COUNSELS,
- OF FRANCIS Ld. VERULAM VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS
- Of Truth
- Of Death
- Of Unity In Religion
- Of Revenge
- Of Adversity
- Of Simulation And Dissimulation
- Of Parents And Children
- Of Marriage And Single Life
- Of Envy
- Of Love
- Of Great Place
- Of Boldness
- Of Goodness and Goodness Of Nature
- Of Nobility
- Of Seditions And Troubles
- Of Atheism
- Of Superstition
- Of Travel
- Of Empire
- Of Counsel
- Of Delays
- Of Cunning
- Of Wisdom For A Man's Self
- Of Innovations
- Of Dispatch
- Of Seeming Wise
- Of Friendship
- Of Expense
- Of the True Greatness Of Kingdoms And Estates
- Of Regiment Of Health
- Of Suspicion
- Of Discourse
- Of Plantations
- Of Riches
- Of Prophecies
- Of Ambition
- Of Masques And Triumphs
- Of Nature In Men
- Of Custom And Education
- Of Fortune
- Of Usury
- Of Youth And Age
- Of Beauty
- Of Deformity
- Of Building
- Of Gardens
- Of Negotiating
- Of Suitors
- Of Faction
- Of Ceremonies, And Respects
- Of Praise
- Of Vain-glory
- Of Honor And Reputation
- Of Judicature
- Of Anger
- Of Vicissitude Of Things
- Of Fame
- A Glossary Of Archaic Words And Phrases
- Copyright