英国文学选读_Francis Bacon弗朗西斯·培根..

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Bacon’s Life Bacon’s Works Bacon’s Essays（《论说文集》） Quotes from Bacon’s Essays
Bacon’s Life
☻1561 January 22, born in London, the younger son of Sir Nicolas Bacon. ☻1573 April, enters Trinity college, Cambridge where he studies all the sciences then taught. ☻1579 Resides at Gray's Inn. Father's death leaves him penniless so he begins a career in law. ☻1584 Takes a seat in parliament for Dorsetshire. ☻1591 Confidential advisor to the earl of Essex. ☻1593 Takes a seat in parliament for Middlesex. ☻1597 Publishes his Essays《论说文集》along with Colours of Good and Evil and the Meditationes Sacrae.
Quotes from Bacon’s Essays
• Knowledge is power. 知识就是力量. • Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. 读书足以怡情，足以博彩，足以长才。 • Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; 书有可浅尝者，有可吞食者，少数则须咀嚼消化。 • Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. 读书使人充实，讨论使人机智，笔记使人准确。 • In beauty, that of favor is more than of color; and that of decent and gracious motion more than that of favor. 美不在颜色艳丽而在面目端正，又不尽在面目端正而在 举止优雅合度。
The Advancement of Learning 《学术的推进》1605 New Instrument 《新工具》1620
Bacon’s Essays
• 1.“Of Studies” 论学习
（the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays）
• 2.“Of Wisdom” 论智慧 • 3.“Of Death” 论死亡 • 4.“Of Friendship” 论友谊
Francis Bacon 弗朗西斯· 培根
22 January 1561 9 April 1626
18-year old Francis Bacon
An English lawyer, statesman, essayist, historian, philosopher(哲学家), and champion of modern science(现代科学拥护者).
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Bacon’s Wife : Alice Barnham Bacon
Bacon’s works
The philosophical works
The literary works
The professional works
Bacon’s works
1. Philosophical:
2. Literary: Essays 《论说文集》 The New Atlantics (a utopian novel published in 1626) 《新大西岛》 3. Professional: Maxim of the Law 《法律原理》 The Reading on the Statute of Uses《法令使用读本》
☻ 1601 February 8, Essex leads a plot to kidnap the queen in order to force her to dismiss his enemies from her court. The leaders were arrested and Bacon was instrument al in securing for the queen a guilty verdict at Essex’ trial. ☻ 1603 Queen Elizabeth dies, succeeded by James I in whose service Bacon flourishes. ☻ 1607 Receives office of solicitor. ☻ 1613 Bacon becomes attorney general.(首席检察官) ☻ 1620 Publishes New Instrument . 《新工具》 ☻ 1621 Created Viscount St. Albans. ☻ 1622 Presents to Prince Charles the History of Henry VII. Publishes Historia Ventorum and Historia Vitae et Mortis. . ☻ 1623 Publishes De Augmentis Scientiarum. ☻ 1624 Publishes Apothegms. ☻ 1626 Catches cold and develops bronchitis, dying on April 9