{"product_id":"2940015643084","title":"Bacon's Essays (With Author Biography, Preface, and Notes) and Wisdom of the Ancients","description":"Bacon's Essays was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. The essays are written in a wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic. They cover topics drawn from both public and private life, and in each case the essays cover their topics systematically from a number of different angles, weighing one argument against another. Translations into French and Italian appeared during Bacon's lifetime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough Bacon considered the Essays \"but as recreation of my other studies\", he was given high praise by his contemporaries, even to the point of crediting him with having invented the essay form. Later researches made clear the extent of Bacon's borrowings from the works of Montaigne, Aristotle and other writers, but the Essays have nevertheless remained in the highest repute. The 19th century literary historian Henry Hallam wrote that \"They are deeper and more discriminating than any earlier, or almost any later, work in the English language\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBacon's genius as a phrase-maker appears to great advantage in the later essays. In \"Of Boldness\" he wrote, \"If the Hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill\", which is the earliest known appearance of that proverb in print. The phrase \"hostages to fortune\" appears in the essay \"Of Marriage and Single Life\", again the earliest known usage. Aldous Huxley's book Jesting Pilate took its epigraph, \"What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer\", from Bacon's essay \"Of Truth\". The 1999 edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations includes no fewer than 91 quotations from the essays\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA list of the essays:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf Truth (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Death (1612, enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Unity in Religion\/Of Religion (1612, rewritten 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Revenge (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Adversity (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Simulation and Dissimulation (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Parents and Children (1612, enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Marriage and Single Life (1612, slightly enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Envy (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Love (1612, rewritten 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Great Place (1612, slightly enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Boldness (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Goodness and Goodness of Nature (1612, enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Nobility (1612, rewritten 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Seditions and Troubles (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Atheism (1612, slightly enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Superstition (1612, slightly enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Travel (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Empire (1612, much enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Counsels (1612, enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Delays (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Cunning (1612, rewritten 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Wisdom for a Man's Self (1612, enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Innovations (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Dispatch (1612)\u003cbr\u003eOf Seeming Wise (1612)\u003cbr\u003eOf Friendship (1612, rewritten 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Expense (1597, enlarged 1612, again 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates (1612, enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Regimen of Health (1597, enlarged 1612, again 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Suspicion (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Discourse (1597, slightly enlarged 1612, again 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Plantations (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Riches (1612, much enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Prophecies (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Ambition (1612, enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Masques and Triumphs (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Nature in Men (1612, enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Custom and Education (1612, enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Fortune (1612, slightly enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Usury (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Youth and Age (1612, slightly enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Beauty (1612, slightly enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Deformity (1612, somewhat altered 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Building (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Gardens (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Negotiating (1597, enlarged 1612, very slightly altered 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Followers and Friends (1597, slightly enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Suitors (1597, enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Studies (1597, enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Faction (1597, much enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Ceremonies and Respects (1597, enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Praise (1612, enlarged 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Vain Glory (1612)\u003cbr\u003eOf Honour and Reputation (1597, omitted 1612, republished 1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Judicature (1612)\u003cbr\u003eOf Anger (1625)\u003cbr\u003eOf Vicissitude of Things (1625)\u003cbr\u003eA Fragment of an Essay of Fame\u003cbr\u003eOf the Colours of Good and Evil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book also contains \"The Wisdom of the Ancients\", which is a series of mythological fables by Francis Bacon, including: Cassandra, or Plainness of Speech; Typhon, or the Rebel; The Cyclopes, or Ministers of Terror; Narcissus, or Self-love; Styx, or Treaties; Pan, or Nature; Perseus, or War, Endymion, or the Favourite; The Sister of the Giants, or Fame; Actæon and Pentheus, or Curiosity; Orpheus, or Philosophy, Cœlum, or the Origin of Things; Proteus, or Matter; Memnon, or the Early-ripe; Tithonus, or Satiety; Juno’s Suitor, or Dishonour; Cupid, or the Atom; Diomedes, or Religious Zeal; Dædalus, or the Mechanic; Ericthonius, or Imposture; Deucalion, or Restoration; Nemesis, or the Vicissitude of Things; Achelous, or the Battle; Dionysus, or Desire; Atalanta, or Profit; Prometheus, or the State of Man, The Flight of Icarus, also Scylla and Charybdis, or the Middle Way; AND MORE.","brand":"Balefire Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074216804592,"sku":"2940015643084","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015643084_p0.jpg?v=1763622942","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015643084","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}