The Wisdom of the Ancients

The Wisdom of the Ancients
Author: Sir Francis Bacon
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1691
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3849691845
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Bacon published this interesting little work in 1609. It contains thirty-one fables abounding with a union of deep thought and poetic beauty. In most fables he explains the common but erroneous supposition that knowledge and the conformity of the will, knowing and acting, are convertible terms.

Of Empire

Of Empire
Author: Francis Bacon
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2006-05-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 110165113X
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Francis Bacon’s landmark writings on subjects ranging from anger and ambition, marriage and money, to envy and empire established him as the founding father of modern scientific thinking, with his rejection of superstition and his emphasis on proof and experiment, rational enquiry and reasoned argument. Writings include: • Of Revenge • Of Parents and Children • Of Envy • Of Love • Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature • Of Cunning • Of Beauty • Of Negotiating • Of Anger • And many more

The Essayes Or Counsels, Civill and Morall

The Essayes Or Counsels, Civill and Morall
Author: Francis Bacon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780198186731
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This edition of Francis Bacon's (1561-1626) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, a re-issue of the first critical edition since the nineteenth century, uses modern editorial standards to establish an authoritative, unmodernized text. The textual apparatus includes a comprehensive, chronological record of the substantive readings of all these manuscripts and editions, so that for the first time the evolution of Bacon's texts may be studied conveniently in detail.