Bacon's Essays; And Wisdom of the Ancients - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0217724388 ISBN 13: 9780217724388

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1884. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... "To Me. Tobib Mathew: It is true my labors are now most set to have those works which I had formerly published, as that of Advancement of Learning, that of Henry VII., that of the Essays, being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not. For these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity. For the Essay of Friendship, while I took your speech of it for a cursory request, I took my promise for a compliment. But since you call for it, I shall perform it." In his letter to Father Fulgentdo, giving some account of his writings, he says:--"The Novum Organum should immediately follow; but my moral and political writings step in between as being more finished. These are, the History of King Henry VII., and the small book, which, in your language, you have called Sagni Morali, but I give it a graver title, that of Sermones Fideles, or Interiora Serum, and these Essays will not only be enlarged in number, but still more in substance." The nature of the Latin edition, and of the Essays in general, is thus stated by Archbishop Tenison:--"The Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral, though a bywork also, do yet make up a book of greater weight by far than the Apothegms; and coming home to men's business and bosoms, his lordship entertained this persuasion concerning them, that the Latin volume might last as long as books should last. His lordship wrote them in the English tongue, and enlarged them as occasion served, and at last added to them the Colors of Good and Evil, which are likewise found in his book De Augmentis. The Latin translation of them was a wo...

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• ISBN 10: 0217724388
• ISBN 13: 9780217724388
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