Bacon, Francis <br/><br/>
The essays 
 Sammlung 
Francis Bacon. Ed. with an introd. by John Pitcher 
 - London [u.a.]  Penguin Books  1985 
 - 287 S.  1 Faks.  20 cm 
 - Penguin classics .
<br/><br/> The genius of Francis Bacon is nowhere better revealed than in his essays.  Bacon's education was grounded in the classical texts of ancient Greece and Rome, but he brought vividness and color to the arid scholasticism of medieval book-learning. Whatever their subject, whether it is something as personal as "Friendship" or as abstract as "Truth," the essays combine a mixture of rhetoric and philosophy; and are perhaps the most complete and rounded examples of Bacon's literary style.  Rather than merely summarizing popular philosophy or producing glib expositions of correct conduct, Bacon attempted to change the shape of the other men's minds. He believed rhetoric, as the force eloquence and persuasion, could incline the mind towards the pure light of reason. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0140432167 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>B86-05714  UK 014-04321  UK GB8-60571  UK 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>English essays  Early modern, 1500-1700  philosophy 11030  essays in English  1558-1625  60030  texts English essays  Early modern, 1500-1700