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The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans. Presented by Auth o rama Public Domain Books. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Of Friendship. IT HAD been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, Whatsoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. For it is most true, that a natural.
The Essays, by Francis Bacon. Of Simulation and Dissimulation. Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong heart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politics, that are the great dissemblers. Tacitus saith, Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband, and dissimulation of her son; attributing arts.
Bacon’s collected essays, about sixty in all, cover an eclectic range of topics. Some essays resemble the Bible’s Book of Proverbs, like a collection of pithy epigrams on a specific theme. Other are more like what we think of when think of essays today. All are short, averaging about three pages. Bacon was a true Renaissance man. Yes, he actually lived during the time period we call the.
Francis Bacon's essays are a collection of sharp opinions on human nature, behavior, feelings, personal aims and the relation with ruling classes and among individuals. It is a nice exercise to compare these views for the seventeenth century with the ones valid in the twenty first only to realize that many still hold and that in spite that many are enunciated for kings and princes the same are.
THE ESSAYS (published 1601) Francis Bacon Contents: 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.
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Bacon’s essays, and Bacon himself, have lost their once universal regard. Bacon has been expelled from the history of science. The very idea that an individual might be responsible for the project and phenomenon of science, and a philosopher at that, offends mathematicians who find a debt to the condemned practice of thinking in mere words distasteful, and would prefer an ancestry direct.