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Contains 58 Essays plus Appendix and 31 titled "The Wisdom of the Ancients; A series of Mythological Fables." 310 pages of the preeminent English philosopher of the 16th century. One of the many volumes of the Black's classical series. ... Read more

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THIS 8 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Secret History of Francis Bacon, by Alfred Dodd. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766140598. ... Read more

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Francis is a remarkable pig who reads classic novels and wants to travel the world, but his fate has been sealed by the Genius Genes Corporation which plans to transplant his brain.Will his friend Lucy be able to save him from his terrible destiny?Illustrated in black and white. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a major new student edition of the text described as "the first modern classic of English history." Francis Bacon's insight into human motives, his life-long experience of politics and government, and his remarkable literary skills, render this History of the Reign of King Henry VII a major work of English literature and an important document in the history of political thought. The edition also includes other relevant writings by Bacon, generous editorial footnotes explaining the historical and political issues of the period, and a substantial glossary. ... Read more

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Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a genuine midwife of modernity. He was one of the first thinkers to visualize a future that would be guided by a cooperative science-based vision of bettering human welfare. In this the first critical edition of his greatest philosophical work since the nineteenth-century, we find facing-page Latin translations and a thorough and detailed Introduction to the text. ... Read more

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The first in-depth survey of Bacon's 7,000+ piece studio
His London studio, portrayed on the cover of FRANCIS BACON'S STUDIO, may look like a mess, but Francis Bacon was one of the most significant post-war painters and his studio, both home and workplace, was key to producing his art. His studio housed thousands of items central to his works and has been untouched since his death in 1992: it was donated in 1998 to the Dublin City Gallery and today curators have made it into a showpiece and work of art itself. The studio's deconstruction revealed over 7,500 objects from photos to illustrated publications, slashed canvases and his final unfinished work: FRANCIS BACON'S STUDIO provides the first in-depth survey of the studio and is essential for art library holdings and any student of Bacon's works.

An Even More In-Depth Coverage of Bacon's Infamous Studio
Though there have been several excellent books written about the contents of Francis Bacon's 7 Reece Mews studio in London, the birthplace of his masterpiece paintings that still haunt the public and the historian minds, this hefty volume by Margarita Cappock offers more.Originally conceived as the book to document the 1998 move of Bacon's studio form Kensington, London to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin where it remains an historic site, Cappock sorts and sifts through the bits of treasure and trash that influenced Bacon's inspiration for his future paintings.

Cappock betters the other books on this subject by illuminating the chards and tatters that most significantly influenced Bacon's thought development and because the book is so extensively illustrated, she is able to place side by side the instigating artifacts with the complete works.This book is by far the most intensive and exhaustive study of the influence of Bacon's studio and its detrituson the evolution of Bacon's paintings and as such belongs in the library of all Bacon scholars and enthusiasts.Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, March 06
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Cassandra, or Divination; Typhon, or a Rebel; The Cyclops, or the Ministers of Terror, Narcissus, or Self-love; Styx, or Leagues; Pan, or Nature; Perseus, or War; Endymion, or a Favorite; The Sister of the Giants, or Fame; Actaeon and Pentheus, or a Curious Man; Orpheus, or Philosophy; Coelum, or Beginnings; Proteus, or Matter; Memnon, or a Youth too Forward; Tithonus, or Satiety; Juno's Suitor, or Baseness; Cupid, or an Atom; Diomedes, or Zeal; Dædalus, or Mechanic; Ericthonius, or Imposture; Deucalion, or Restitution; Nemesis, or the Vicissitude of Things; Achelous, or Battle; Dionysus, or Passions; Atalanta, or Gain; Prometheus, or the State of Man; Scylia and Icarus, or the Middle Way; Sphynx, or Science; Proserpina, or Spirit; Metis, or Counsel; The Sirens, or Pleasures. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Seek elsewhere for cousel, civil or moral
This is an awful edition.There are absolutely no footnotes for Bacon's difficult and labyrinthine prose, no translations of his Latin quotations, as well as plain typographical errors.For instance, one of the more famous lines in essay 11 runs, "All rising to great place is by a winding stair" which this edition renders, "All rising to great place is by a winding star."A small error which completely obfuscates the sense of the passage.You are better off spending a little more for Bacon's Major Works from Oxford University Press, which has the complete Essays in it I believe, amongst many others. ... Read more

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This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives. Encompassing the fields of cultural history, history of science, literature, and politics, the collection explores The New Atlantis' complex location within Bacon's oeuvre and its negotiations with cultural debates of the past and present. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced “scientific” society, it is also read as a seminal work of science fiction.
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The full study of Bacon as a writer, Dr Vickers takes into account the whole corpus of Bacon's work, in Latin as well as in English. His chief sources are the The Advancement of Learning and the Essays. His purpose is to reinstate Bacon as one of the supreme masters of English prose in a period which made rich use of all the expressive resources of the medium. The study is both analytical and historical: it isolates the major features of Bacon's style, and sets them in the context of Renaissance theory and practice. The features include the overall structure of Bacon's works, his important concept of the aphorism, and his use of the traditional patterns of syntax. Dr Vickers makes a challenging reassessment of the accepted view of Bacon as a 'Senecan' or 'anti-Ciceronian' prose writer. Particular attention is paid to imagery, in which Bacon's powers as an imaginative writer are greatest. There are two general chapters, the first being the problem of analysing style, the last on reactions to Bacon's style since the seventeenth century. This book also provides the basis for a fresh assessment of Renaissance prose. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER IV.Francis Bacon: An Outline Of His Life And Aims." All is not in years to me; somewhat is in hours well spent."—Promus."Yet hath Sir Proteus, for that's his name, Made use and fair advantage of his days; His head uumellow'd, but his judgment ripe." —Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 4.MANY and various opinions have been expressed in modern times concerning Francis Bacon, and the motives and aims supposed to have influenced his course and actions in public capacities. We may safely pass by these phases of his wonderful career, so carefully and devotedly recorded in the calm pages of James Spedding, 1 and will for the present consider the personality and life of Bacon from two different aspects: first, as the poet; secondly, as the most ardent promoter, if not the founder, of a vast secret society, destined to create a complete reformation in learning, science, literature, and religion itself, throughout the whole wide world. In the lively works of Hepworth Dixon, and in scattered episodes in Spedding's Life of Bacon, we get occasional peeps behind the scene. But, in the last named work especially, it appears as if we were not meant to do so. The facts that Bacon in his youth " masked and mummed," and led the revels at Gray's Inn; that throughout his life he was appealed to on all great occasions to write witty speeches for others to deliver at the gorgeous " entertainments " which were the fashion of the day (and in which, doubtless, he took a leading part, in the background); that he and his brother Anthony, who was living with him in 1594,actually removed from their lodgings in Gray's Inn to a house in Bishopsgate Street, in the immediate neighborhood of The Bull Inn, where plays and interludes were acted. These and many such important factors in his p... ... Read more