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Excerpt from Bacon's Essays: And Colours of Good and Evil Having been accustomed to write down, from time to time, such observations as occurred to me on several of Bacon's Essays, and also to make references to passages in various books which relate to the same subjects, I have been induced to lay the whole before the Public in an Edition of these Essays. And in this I have availed myself of the assistance of a friend, who, besides offering several valuable suggestions, kindly undertook the task of revising and arranging the loose notes I had written down, and adding, in footnotes, explanations of obsolete words and phrases. In order to guard against the imputation of presumption in venturing to make additions to what Bacon has said on several subjects, it is necessary to call attention to the circumstance that the word Essay has been considerably changed in its application since the days of Bacon. By an Essay was originally meant - according to the obvious and natural sense of the word - a slight sketch, to be filled up by the reader; brief hints, designed to be followed out; loose thought on some subjects, thrown out without much regularity, but sufficient to suggest further inquiries and reflections. Any more elaborate, regular, and finished composition, such as, in our days, often bears the title of an Essay, our ancestors called a treatise, tractate, dissertation, or discourse. But the more unpretending title of 'Essay' has in great measure superseded those others which were formerly in use, and more strictly appropriate. I have adverted to this circumstance because it ought to be remembered that an Essay, in the original and strict sense of the word, - an Essay such as Bacon's, - was designed to be suggestive of further remarks and reflections, and, in short, to set the reader a-thinking on the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Book category Books in English Health & personal development Self-help & personal development Popular psychology

• Full title: Bacon's Essays
• Subtitle: And Colours of Good and Evil (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Francis Bacon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 650
• EAN: 9781330121740
• ISBN: 9781330121740
• ID: 09470872
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 858 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. June 2015

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