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Lord Bacon's Essays, or Counsels Moral and Civil: 1
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Letters & EssaysGeneral World History
ISBN13: 9781021511959
Publisher: Legare Street Pr
Published: Jul 18 2023
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.61
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This is the first volume of Lord Bacon's Essays or Counsels, Moral and Civil, originally published in 1625. The book consists of ten essays on various topics of morality and civic conduct, such as truth, revenge, envy, friendship, and atheism, among others. The essays are written in a concise, aphoristic style, typical of seventeenth-century literature, and are considered one of the most important works of English prose.
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