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Discusses truth, death, revenge, adversity, envy, marriage, love, goodness, superstition, friendship, ambition, aging, beauty, gardens and honour.Read More

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  • Foyles

    One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy and science - declaring early in his career that 'I have taken all knowledge as my province'. In this, his most famous work, he considers a diverse range of subjects, such as death and marriage, ambition and atheism, in prose that is vibrant and rich in Renaissance learning. Bacon believed that rhetoric - the force of eloquence and persuasion - could lead the mind to the pure light of reason, and his own rhetorical genius is nowhere better expressed than in these vivid essays.

  • Penguin

    The genius of Francis Bacon is nowhere better revealed than in his essays. Bacon's education was grounded in the classical texts of ancient Greece and Rome, but he brought vividness and colour to the arid scholasticism of medieval book-learning.

  • BookDepository

    The Essays : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140432169 : 0140432167 : 07 Jan 1986 : Discusses truth, death, revenge, adversity, envy, marriage, love, goodness, superstition, friendship, ambition, aging, beauty, gardens and honour.

  • ASDA

    Discusses truth death revenge adversity envy marriage love goodness superstition friendship ambition aging beauty gardens and honour.

  • Pickabook

    Francis Bacon, John Pitcher

  • 0140432167
  • 9780140432169
  • Francis Bacon
  • 24 June 2004
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
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