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The Essays Hardcover – April 25, 2016

by Francis Bacon Sir (Author)

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Publisher: Palala Press (April 25, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1354543874
ISBN-13: 978-1354543870
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1 x 9.2 inches
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August 24, 2017

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Some books are to be tasted,” reads a famous passage, “others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested”; all these groups forming, no doubt, an infinitesimal portion of theoceans and cataracts of ink in which the world is daily bathed and poisoned and drowned. Surely the Essays must be numbered among the few books that deserve to be chewed and digested. Rarely shall you find so much meat, so admirably dressed and flavored, in so small a dish. Bacon abhors padding, and disdains to waste a word; he offers us infinite riches in a little phrase; each of these essays gives in a page or two the distilled subtlety of a master mind on a major issue of life.

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Francis Bacon's "The Essays"

January 2, 2017

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I first encountered Francis Bacon's "Essays" many, many years ago during college. My copy was a college library edition, so it did not remain a part of my permanent collection. However, some 25+ years later, I purchased the Penguin Classics edition to reread and reminisce about my school days, and I was not disappointed. Personally I found his essays fascinating, eloquent, philosophical, and brilliant. If I were in the same line of work I was in 15 years ago, I would study and memorize some of his quotes and use them in arguments with my colleagues and especially against my enemies.

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Bacon Essays - Review by Will Durant

December 26, 2012

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Will Durant's - The Story of Philosophy - Chapter on Francis Bacon.

Bacons' finest literary product, the Essays (1597-1623), show him still torn between these two loves, for politics and for philosophy. In the "Essay of Honor and Reputation" he gives all the degrees of honor to political and military achieve-
ments, none to the literary or the philosophical. But in the essay "Of Truth" he writes : "The inquiry of truth, which is
the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the praise of it ; and the belief of truth, which is the
enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human natures. In books "we converse with the wise, as in action with fools. That is, if we know how to select our books. "Some books are to be tasted," reads a famous passage (Essay #50), "others to be
swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"; all these groups forming, no doubt, an infinitesimal portion of
the oceans and cataracts of ink in which the world is daily bathed and poisoned and drowned.

Surely the Essays must be numbered among the few books that deserve to be chewed and digested. Rarely shall you find so much meat, so admirably dressed and flavored, in so small a dish. Bacon abhors padding, and disdains to waste a word; he offers us infinite riches in a little phrase; each of these essays gives in a page or two the distilled subtlety of a master mind on a major issue of life. It is difficult to say whether the matter or the manner more excels; for here is language as supreme in prose as Shakespeare's is in verse.

Durants preference is for Essays 2, 7, 8, 11, 12, 16, 18, 20, 27, 29, 38, 39, 42, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54.

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Purchased this book Dec 2012. It was printed Sept 26, 2012 with 145 pgs. No introduction. No translations for the many Latin phrases. Used Google Translator for Latin phrases. Book is formatted so there is space to write notes on each page. After reading the Essays, one admires Bacon's concise eloquence.

link below is helpful for quick search on key words / phrases.

archive.org/stream/Story-Of-Philosophy/StoryOfPhilosophy_djvu.txt

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Great window into the past...cryptic, insightful, philosophical, huge scope of History and philosophy, great handbook of what matters, chapters on any subject you would value.

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It is well printed. The paper back book is easy to carry around.

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