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Discusses truth, death, revenge, adversity, envy, marriage, love, goodness, superstition, friendship, ambition, aging, beauty, gardens and honour.

Table of Contents
Principal Dates in Bacon's Life
Introduction
A Note on the Text and Annotation
Further Reading
THE ESSAYSAPPENDICESThe Essays: Fragments, Versions and Parallels
1. Writing the Essays
2. Counsels for the Prince
3. The Wisdom of the Ancients
4. Idols of the Mind
5. A Poetical Essay

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 29/08/1985
      ISBN13: 9780140432169, 978-0140432169
      ISBN10: 0140432167
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Discusses truth, death, revenge, adversity, envy, marriage, love, goodness, superstition, friendship, ambition, aging, beauty, gardens and honour.

      Table of Contents
      Principal Dates in Bacon's Life
      Introduction
      A Note on the Text and Annotation
      Further Reading
      THE ESSAYSAPPENDICESThe Essays: Fragments, Versions and Parallels
      1. Writing the Essays
      2. Counsels for the Prince
      3. The Wisdom of the Ancients
      4. Idols of the Mind
      5. A Poetical Essay

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