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Sir Francis Bacon was a man of many accomplishments—scientist, philosopher, and politician; he was adept, too, at taking bribes, and for that was imprisoned. Yet it is as a literary man that he is perhaps best remembered, a writer so competent with the pen that for decades there have been persons willing to argue that Bacon wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare.

The essay form is rare in the modern age, although there are some faint signs of its revival. As Bacon used it, the essay is a carefully fashioned statement, both informative...

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