Francis Bacon George Herbert Clarke. imate of bribery , doth the other . And avoid not only the fault but the ... in author- ity settled and calm . O All rising to great place is by a winding stair 36 ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND ...

... Francis Bacon , Viscount St Alban . Revised from the early copies , the references supplied , and a few Notes by S. W. Singer , F.S.A. Bell and Daldy . Francisci de Verulamio Novum Organum sive Indicia vera de Interpretatione Natura ...

... Bacon THE ESSAYS or Counsels , Civill and Morall , of Francis Lo Verulam , Viscount St. Alban . Newly enlarged , sm ... in author's autograph : " Mr. Samuel Cardozo , with the author's best remembrances . " | 1 21 LANG ( A ...

The present book is the first comprehensive survey of the field from a literary perspective to appear for forty years.

Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

How did authors, including Herbert, Jonson, Milton, Nashe and Cavendish, respond to this sense of the book as patched, transient, flawed, and palimpsestic?