Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin)

1864

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Page v
... one of the most suggestive authors that ever wrote. And it is remarkable that,
compressed and pithy as the Essays are, and consisting chiefly of brief hints, he
has elsewhere condensed into a still smaller compass the matter of most of them.

Page xii
'It is pity,' we sometimes hear it said, ' that such and such an author does not
express in simple, intelligible, unaffected English such admirable matter as his.'
They little think that it is the strangeness and obscurity of the style that make the ...

Page xx
But one of the most remarkable specimens of his inaptitude for practically
carrying out his own principles in matters connected with Physical Science, is his
speculation concerning the well-known plant called misselto. He notices the
popular ...

Page 3
One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to
think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for
pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant, but for the lie's ...

Page 4
First he breathed light upon the face of the matter, or chaos, then he breathed
light into the face of man; and still ho breatheth and inspireth light into the face of
his chosen. The poet,5 that beautified the sect6 that was otherwise inferior to the
...

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Table of Contents

Index

ESSAY PACK I OF TRUTH I	3

OF DEATH	16

OF UNITY IN RELIGION	23

OF REVENGE	59

OF ADVERSITY	70

OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION	83

OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN	92

VIIL OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE	96

OF SUSPICION	354

OF DISCOURSE	368

OF PLANTATIONS	377

OF RICHES 392	396

OF PROPHECIES	403

OF AMBITION	410

OF MASQUES AND TRIUMPHS	416

OF NATURE IN MEN	418

OF ENVY	101

OF LOVE	111

OF GREAT PLACE	116

OF BOLDNESS	136

OF GOODNESS AND GOODNESS OF NATURE	139

OF NOBILITY	147

OF SEDITIONS AND TROUBLES	152

OF ATHEISM 169	171

OF SUPERSTITION	183

OF TRAVEL	209

OF EMPIRE	215

OF COUNSEL	224

OF DELAYS	234

OF CUNNING	241

OF WISDOM FOR A MANS SELF	257

OF INNOVATIONS	264

OF DISPATCH	288

OF SEEMING WISE 294	292

OF FRIENDSHIP 302	304

OF THE TRUE GREATNESS OF KINGDOMS	327

ESTATES	329

OF REGIMEN OF HEALTH	348

OF CUSTOM AND EDUCATION	423

OF FORTUNE	437

OF USURY	442

OF YOUTH AND AGE 449	452

OF BEAUTY	459

OF DEFORMITY	461

OF BUILDING	463

OF GARDENS	468

OF NEGOTIATING	477

OF FOLLOWERS AND FRIENDS	493

OF SUITORS	498

OF STUDIES	501

OF FACTION	544

OF CEREMONIES AND RESPECTS	551

OF PRAISE	555

OF VAIN GLORY	568

OF HONOUR AND REPUTATION	573

OF JUDICATURE	582

OF ANGER 591	592

OF VICISSITUDES OF THINGS	597

A FRAGMENT OF AN ESSAY ON FAME	604

THE TRAISE OF KNOWLEDGE	608

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Page 501 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.

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Page 5 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

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Page 183 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :

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Page 582 - Judges ought to be more learned than witty ; more reverend than plausible ; and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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Page 502 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins ; shooting for the lungs and breast ; gentle walking for the stomach ; riding for the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

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Page 369 - Discretion of speech is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order.

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Page 70 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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Page 73 - Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me: come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

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Page 3 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it, that men should love lies, where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets, nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.

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Page 116 - Men in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign or state ; servants of fame; and servants of business : so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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Title	Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately
Editor	Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin)
Edition	6
Published	1864
Original from	Oxford University
Digitized	2 Aug 2006

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