{"product_id":"2940012844989","title":"The Mystery of Francis Bacon","description":"CHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e      I.--Sources of Information                                       9\u003cbr\u003e     II.--The Stock from which Bacon Came                             14\u003cbr\u003e    III.--Francis Bacon, 1560 to 1572                                 19\u003cbr\u003e     IV.--At Cambridge                                                25\u003cbr\u003e      V.--Early Compositions                                          29\u003cbr\u003e     VI.--Bacon's \"Temporis Partus Maximus\"                           36\u003cbr\u003e    VII.--Bacon's First Allegorical Romance                           47\u003cbr\u003e   VIII.--Bacon in France, 1576-1579                                  52\u003cbr\u003e     IX.--Bacon's Suit on His Return to England, 1580                 62\u003cbr\u003e      X.--The \"Rare and Unaccustomed Suit\"                            76\u003cbr\u003e     XI.--Bacon's Second Visit to the Continent and After             82\u003cbr\u003e    XII.--Is it Probable that Bacon left Manuscripts Hidden Away?     94\u003cbr\u003e   XIII.--How the Elizabethan Literature was Produced                 98\u003cbr\u003e    XIV.--The Clue to the Mystery of Bacon's Life                    103\u003cbr\u003e     XV.--Burghley and Bacon                                         114\u003cbr\u003e    XVI.--The 1623 Folio Edition of Shakespeare's Plays              123\u003cbr\u003e   XVII.--The Authorised Version of the Bible, 1611                  126\u003cbr\u003e  XVIII.--How Bacon Marked Books with the Publication of\u003cbr\u003e            Which He Was Connected                                   132\u003cbr\u003e    XIX.--Bacon and Emblemata                                        140\u003cbr\u003e     XX.--Shakespeare's Sonnets                                      148\u003cbr\u003e    XXI.--Bacon's Library                                            156\u003cbr\u003e   XXII.--Two German Opinions on Shakespeare and Bacon               161\u003cbr\u003e  XXIII.--The Testimony of Bacon's Contemporaries                    170\u003cbr\u003e   XXIV.--The Missing Fourth Part of \"The Great Instauration\"        177\u003cbr\u003e    XXV.--The Philosophy of Bacon                                    187\u003cbr\u003e          Appendix                                                   193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs there a mystery connected with the life of Francis Bacon? The average\u003cbr\u003estudent of history or literature will unhesitatingly reply in the\u003cbr\u003enegative, perhaps qualifying his answer by adding:--Unless it be a\u003cbr\u003emystery that a man with such magnificent intellectual attainments could\u003cbr\u003ehave fallen so low as to prove a faithless friend to a generous\u003cbr\u003ebenefactor in the hour of his trial, and, upon being raised to one of\u003cbr\u003ethe highest positions of honour and influence in the State, to become a\u003cbr\u003ecorrupt public servant and a receiver of bribes to pervert justice.--It\u003cbr\u003eis one of the most remarkable circumstances to be found in the history\u003cbr\u003eof any country that a man admittedly pre-eminent in his intellectual\u003cbr\u003epowers, spoken of by his contemporaries in the highest terms for his\u003cbr\u003evirtues and his goodness, should, in subsequent ages, be held up to\u003cbr\u003eobloquy and scorn and seldom be referred to except as an example of a\u003cbr\u003ecorrupt judge, a standing warning to those who must take heed how they\u003cbr\u003estand lest they fall. Truly the treatment which Francis Bacon has\u003cbr\u003ereceived confirms the truth of the aphorism, \"The evil that men do lives\u003cbr\u003eafter them; the good is oft interred with their bones.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is not the intention in the following brief survey of Bacon's life to\u003cbr\u003eenter upon any attempt to vindicate his character. Since his works and\u003cbr\u003elife have come prominently before the reading public, he has never been\u003cbr\u003ewithout a defender. Montagu, Hepworth Dixon, and Spedding have, one\u003cbr\u003eafter the other, raised their voices against the injustice which has\u003cbr\u003ebeen done to the memory of this great Englishman; and although\u003cbr\u003eMacaulay, in his misleading and inaccurate essay,[1] abounding in\u003cbr\u003eparadoxes and inconsistencies, produced the most powerful, though\u003cbr\u003eprejudiced, attack which has been made on Bacon's fame, he may almost be\u003cbr\u003eforgiven, because it provided the occasion for James Spedding in\u003cbr\u003e\"Evenings with a Reviewer,\" to respond with a thorough and complete\u003cbr\u003evindication of the man to whose memory he devoted his life. There rests\u003cbr\u003eon every member of the Anglo-Saxon race an obligation--imposed upon him\u003cbr\u003eby the benefits which he enjoys as the result of Francis Bacon's\u003cbr\u003elife-work--to read this vindication of his character. Nor should mention\u003cbr\u003ebe omitted of the essay by Mr. J. M. Robertson on \"Francis Bacon\" in his\u003cbr\u003eexcellent work \"Pioneer Humanists.\" All these defenders of Bacon treat\u003cbr\u003etheir subject from what may be termed the orthodox point of view. They\u003cbr\u003efollow in the beaten track. They do not look for Bacon outside his\u003cbr\u003eacknowledged works and letters.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168006521072,"sku":"2940012844989","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012844989_p0.jpg?v=1763573459","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012844989","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}