bacon's essays

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CUP Archive, 1985 - 300 pages

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Contents

I
1
Of Unitie in Religion
3
Of Revenge
11
Of Adversitie
12
Of Simulation and Dissimulation
16
Of Parents and Children
17
Of Marriage and Single Life
19
Of Envie 10 Of Love
26
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34
186
36
190
38
192
THE ESSAYS I
193
51
195
53
198
58
201

Of Great Place
28
12
29
Of Boldnesse
32
Of Goodnesse and Goodnesse of Nature
34
Of Nobilitie 15 Of Seditions and Troubles
42
Of Atheisme
46
Of Superstition
49
Of Travaile
51
Of Empire
53
Of Counsell
58
21
147
Of Delaies 6
148
13
161
19
180
21
181
63
203
Of Cunning
204
Of Wisdome for a Mans Selfe 24 Of Innovations 25 Of Dispatch
209
Of Seeming Wise
210
Of Frendship
211
Of Expence
214
NOTES 179
216
69
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229
74
233
INDEX OF PROPER NAMES
246
WORKS QUOTED IN THE ESSAYS
285
WORDS AND PHRASES EXPLAINED IN THE NOTES
299

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