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Bacon’s essays


Although Bacon was at one time vastly over-praised as a scientist, he remains unrivalled （无对手的）as the advocate of science, as the electrifying prophet of Man's control of nature. And his essays remain unrivalled for so much worldly wisdom in so little space. They cover a wide variety of subjects, such as love, truth, friendship, parents and children, studies, riches and many others. In arrangement they are precise and well ordered, as one would expect from a scientist. Many of his sentences have become wise old sayings. Bacon writes fifty-eight essays.
Quotes



Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds . Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. Knowledge is power. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion(十全十美的美从来就是不存在 的 ). Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Bibliographical Introduction(2)

During the reign of James he was appointed Lord Chancellor（大法官）. But he was charged with bribery（受贿） and corruption by Parliament when the popular dissatisfaction against the king and his agents was mounting. Bacon admitted himself guilty of “corruption and neglect”,. He was punished, dismissed from his office ,fined 40,000 pounds and imprisoned in the Tower of London. he was released a few days later and spent the last five years of his life in the pursuit of literature and scientific works.
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Construction what purpose how to read choose what kind of book Studies ways Studies only present impractical (general) principles. If studies are not confined by experience, their directions would be useless. They (studies) perfect nature natural ability（先天才能), and are perfected by experience（后天经验）.
of Truth

Construction
Question :What is Truth Difference: The word of the lie and truth Double truth • Theory truth • Instruction truth
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FRANCIS BACON(1516-1626)
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Introduction Works of Truth of Studies Quotes
Bibliographical Introduction(1)


Though Bacon was Shakespeare’s contemporary, he is generally regarded as the chief figure in English prose （散文） in the first half of the 17th century and his essays began the long tradition of the English essay in the history of English literature. Bacon was born in London. His father was Lord Keeper of the Seal (章玺)during Queen Elizabeth’s reign. He studied at Cambridge and was brought up with an aversion to medieval scholasticism. He left Cambridge after he had been there for two years. Then he pursued the study of law ,gaining admission to the bar in 1582,and at the age of twenty-six was elected to parliament.
Works
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The Philosophical the Advancement of Learning(1605) the Novum organum(1620) the De Augmentis(1623) The Literary Essays The professional works Maxims of the law Reading on the Statute of Uses