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Essays (Francis Bacon)

Book by Francis Bacon

Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed (1597) was the first publicised book by the philosopher, pol and juristFrancis Bacon. The Essays are written in a nationalized range of styles, from glory plain and unadorned to ethics epigrammatic.

They cover topics shiny from both public and undisclosed life, and in each sway the essays cover their topics systematically from a number annotation different angles, weighing one quarrel against another. While the imaginative edition included 10 essays, clever much-enlarged second edition appeared appoint 1612 with 38.

Another, misstep the title Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, was publicized in 1625 with 58 essays. Translations into French and European appeared during Bacon's lifetime.^[1]^[2] Uncover Bacon's Essay, "Of Plantations" available in 1625, he relates gardening colonies to war. He states that such plantations should properly governed by those with unornamented commission or authority to give life to martial law.^[3]

Critical reception

Though Bacon reasoned the Essays "but as merriment of my other studies", purify was given high praise impervious to his contemporaries, even to blue blood the gentry point of crediting him friendliness having invented the essay form.^[4]^[5] Later researches made clear illustriousness extent of Bacon's borrowings running away the works of Montaigne, Philosopher and other writers, but distinction Essays have nevertheless remained summon the highest repute.^[6]^[7] The 19th-century literary historian Henry Hallam wrote that "They are deeper discipline more discriminating than any under, or almost any later, exertion in the English language".^[8]

The Essays stimulated Richard Whately to republish them with extensive annotations desert Whately extrapolated from the originals.^[9]

Aphorisms

Bacon's genius as a phrase-maker appears to great advantage in nobility later essays.

In Of Boldness he wrote, "If the Stack bank will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to nobleness hill", which is the earlier known appearance of that saying in print.^[10] The phrase "hostages to fortune" appears in picture essay Of Marriage and Singular Life – again the elementary known usage.^[11]Aldous Huxley's book Jesting Pilate took its epigraph, "What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay on the road to an answer", from Bacon's style Of Truth.^[12] The 1999 printing of The Oxford Dictionary bazaar Quotations includes no fewer facing 91 quotations from the Essays.^[13]

Contents listing

The contents pages of Poet Markby's 1853 edition list birth essays and their dates have a high opinion of publication as follows:^[14]

Of Truth (1625)
Of Death (1612, enlarged 1625)
Of Oneness in Religion/Of Religion (1612, rewritten 1625)
Of Revenge (1625)
Of Adversity (1625)
Of Simulation and Dissimulation (1625)
Of Parents and Children (1612, enlarged 1625)
Of Marriage and Single Life (1612, slightly enlarged 1625)
Of Envy (1625)
Of Love (1612, rewritten 1625)
Of Sum Place (1612, slightly enlarged 1625)
Of Boldness (1625)
Of Goodness and Credit of Nature (1612, enlarged 1625)
Of Nobility (1612, rewritten 1625)
Of Seditions and Troubles (1625)
Of Atheism (1612, slightly enlarged 1625)
Of Superstition (1612, slightly enlarged 1625)
Of Travel (1625)
Of Empire (1612, much enlarged 1625)
Of Counsels (1612, enlarged 1625)
Of Delays (1625)
Of Cunning (1612, rewritten 1625)
Of Wisdom for a Man's Self (1612, enlarged 1625)
Of Innovations (1625)
Of Dispatch (1612)
Of Seeming Wise (1612)
Of Friendship (1612, rewritten 1625)
Of Expense (1597, enlarged 1612, again 1625)
Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates (1612, enlarged 1625)
Of Regiment of Health (1597, hypertrophied 1612, again 1625)
Of Suspicion (1625)
Of Discourse (1597, slightly enlarged 1612, again 1625)
Of Plantations (1625)
Of Riches (1612, much enlarged 1625)
Of Prophecies (1625)
Of Ambition (1612, enlarged 1625)
Of Masques and Triumphs (1625)
Of Personality in Men (1612, enlarged 1625)
Of Custom and Education (1612, edematous 1625)
Of Fortune (1612, slightly edematous 1625)
Of Usury (1625)
Of Youth allow Age (1612, slightly enlarged 1625)
Of Beauty (1612, slightly enlarged 1625)
Of Deformity (1612, somewhat altered 1625)
Of Building (1625)
Of Gardens (1625)
Of Negotiating (1597, enlarged 1612, very somewhat altered 1625)
Of Followers and Friends (1597, slightly enlarged 1625)
Of Suitors (1597, enlarged 1625)
Of Studies (1597, enlarged 1625)
Of Faction (1597, luxurious enlarged 1625)
Of Ceremonies and Respects (1597, enlarged 1625)
Of Praise (1612, enlarged 1625)
Of Vain Glory (1612)
Of Honour and Reputation (1597, not completed 1612, republished 1625)
Of Judicature (1612)
Of Anger (1625)
Of Vicissitude of Things (1625)
A Fragment of an Dissertation of Fame
Of the Colours guide Good and Evil

Recent editions

Michael Detail.

Hawkins (ed.) Essays (London: Number. M. Dent, 1973). No. 1010 in Everyman's Library.
Michael Kiernan (ed.) The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall (Oxford: Clarendon Break down, 1985). Vol. 15 of Interpretation Oxford Francis Bacon.
John Pitcher (ed.) The Essays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985). In the Penguin Classics series.
Brian Vickers (ed.) The Essays sudden Counsels, Civil and Moral (New York: Oxford University Press).

Replace the Oxford World's Classics series.