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| Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. |
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| 1561–1626, English philosopher, essayist, and statesman, b. London, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at Gray’s Inn.…. Bacon belongs to both philosophy and literature.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  b ´k n from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Essays, Civil and Moral
Whether turning a phrase or observing the politics of the day, the Essays epitomize Bacon as the master of English prose. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. III, Part 1.
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- The New Atlantis
This account of an ideal state reveals both practical methods and unique fantasy. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. III, Part 2.
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- Prefaces and Prologues
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXIX.
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- Bartlett’s Bacon Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Bacon, Francis, 5082 to 5144
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT BACON
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- “Bacon”
Section by W. R. Sorley from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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