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Francis Bacon’s essay “Of Truth” is one of the more famous of his works of prose. The essay begins by mocking those who refuse to admit that there is any certain, objective truth. Bacon argues that...
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Bacon's essay contrasts the imagination, energy, and willingness to take risks of young men with the opposite traits found in the aged: caution, indecision, and understanding. Bacon recognizes that...
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Francis Bacon was a Renaissance humanist, and all of his essays reflect this characteristic. Each one is a blend of wisdom from the classical world of Greek and Rome and Christian theology. Bacon...
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Francis Bacon's essay "On Studies," perhaps his most famous, lays out the reasons that Bacon thinks that studies are an essential part of daily life and describes the kinds of studies that he...
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Bacon's essay "Of Studies" is part of The Essayes or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban (London, 1625) Bacon argues that studies "serve for Delight, for...
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For the protean Francis Bacon, the question of how to operate a plantation effectively was more than an academic exercise; along with Captain John Smith and his cousin the Earl of Salisbury, he was...
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"Of Marriage and the Single Life" is a short essay by Francis Bacon. Bacon begins the essay by proposing that married men and fathers stifle their own creativity and usefulness to the world when...
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In the 1601 edition of Francis Bacon’s Essays, the penultimate (that is, next-to-last) paragraph reads as follows: To contain anger from mischief, though it take hold of a man, there be two things,...
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Bacon, in short, argues that superstition—by which, we should be clear, he means Catholicism—is a corrupting influence in society. He goes so far as to say that even atheism is better than...
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The style of Sir Francis Bacon’s Essays is indebted to a number of sources, both literary and otherwise. Like most Renaissance Christians, especially the well-educated, Bacon was very familiar with...
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A helpful discussion of Sir Francis Bacon’s essay “Of Truth” might begin by simply paraphrasing the argument of the essay. Essentially, Bacon argues as follows: Although there are few...
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This is going to be a matter of opinion. I think that it's highly subjective to be able to argue that Bacon's works are an example of worldly wisdom. They are based on his own experience and what...
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In his essay “Of Travaille” [that is, concerning travel], Sir Francis Bacon uses a variety of persuasive techniques and some notable instances of figurative language in order to support his...
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This is the essay of a wise man, who describes the three fruits of friendship as follows: For there is no man, that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that...
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Francis Bacon wrote just over a hundred essays between 1597 and 1625), many of which discuss how man should handle himself in difficult situations--in this case, how one should view adversity and...
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The English titles of Bacon's essays follow conventions dating back to classical antiquity and Greek and Latin titles. Before the Hellenistic period, ancient Greek literature was normally written...
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In the 1601 edition of Francis Bacon’s Essays, the essay “Of Anger” concludes with the following paragraph: For raising and appeasing anger in another; it is done chiefly by choosing of times,...
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The quotation to which you refer comes from Francis Bacon's essay "Of Studies," and is part of a longer quote in which he says, "Reading makes a full man; Conference a ready man; and Writing an...
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Bacon opens the essay, "Of Studies," with this line: Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. This notion parallels the line quoted in your question. Those studies that delight...
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Bacon's essay "Of Delays" might well be called "Of Proper Timing" because its subject is the importance of weighing carefully when to move ahead with a plan and when to wait. The essay opens with...
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Bacon's Essays, written in three groups between 1597 and 1625, are Bacon's attempts to guide men to appropriate actions in their personal, business, and public lives--they are, in essence, the...
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When discussing the style and themes of Sir Francis Bacon’s Essays, it’s important to remember that the Essays were published in three editions in Bacon’s lifetime. Each new edition added more...
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In his essay “Of Anger,” Sir Francis Bacon lists various causes or motives of anger, including the following: a “natural inclination and habit to be angry”: in other words, a tendency toward anger...
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In Bacon's essay "Of Studies," he lists the profound benefits and the vain applications of scholarly work and study. When Bacon writes "to use them (studies) too much for ornament, is affectation,"...
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For a number of reasons, this is a difficult question to answer. For one thing, it is unclear what the “opinion” is supposed to be about? Is it supposed to be about Bacon’s essay “Of Studies”? Or...
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Francis Bacon's "Essays" are a series of writings that address a very broad range of topics, including Anger, War, Virtue, Envy, etc... as well as the one at hand, Praise. On first glance they look...
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I think that much of this can be read as opinion. It is difficult to assess whether or not such a statement is true because it is a matter of opinion. Take some of the items presented in the...
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This is a very broad topic. I think that the first step that has to be taken in forming any thesis statement would be to ensure that what you are going to write about is consistent with the...
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In this paragraph, Bacon basically describes what he thinks are the causes of anger. Consider the first point. First, to be too sensible of hurt; for no man is angry, that feels not himself hurt;...
