The essays, or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban with a table of the colours of good and evil, and a discourse of The wisdom of the ancients : to this edition is added The character of Queen Elizabeth, never before printed in English.
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The essays, or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban with a table of the colours of good and evil, and a discourse of The wisdom of the ancients : to this edition is added The character of Queen Elizabeth, never before printed in English.
Author
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
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London :: Printed for H. Herringman, R. Scot, R. Chiswell, A. Swalle, and R. Bentley ,
1696.
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Elizabeth -- I, -- Queen of England, 1533-1603.
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"The essays, or councils, civil and moral, of Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban with a table of the colours of good and evil, and a discourse of The wisdom of the ancients : to this edition is added The character of Queen Elizabeth, never before printed in English." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28200.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2025.
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THE TABLE.
OF Adversity.
Page 11
Of Ambition.
101
Of Anger.
150
Of Atheism.
41
Of Beauty.
156
Of Boldness.
29
Of Building.
119
Of Ceremonies and Respects.
138
Of Counsel.
53
Of Cunning.
58
Of Custom and Education.
107
Of Death.
3
Of Deformity.
117
Of Delays.
57
Of Discourse.
89
Of Dispatch.
65
Of Empire.
48
Of Envy.
18
Of Expence.
76
Of Faction.
136
Of Followers and Friends.
131
Of Fortune.
109
Of Friendship.
69
Of Gardens.
123
Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature.
30
Of Great Place.
25
Of the true Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates.
77
Of Regiment of Health.
86
Of Honour and Reputation.
144
Of Innovations.
64
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Of Judicature.
146
Of Love.
23
Of Marriage and Single Life.
17
Of Masks and Triumphs.
103
Of Nature in Men.
105
Of Negotiating.
129
Of Nobility.
33
Of Parents and Children.
15
Of Plantations.
92
Of Praise.
140
Of Prophecies.
98
Of Revenge.
9
Of Riches.
95
Of Seditions and Troubles.
34
Of Seeming Wise.
67
Of Simulation and Dissimulation.
12
Of Studies.
135
Of Superstition.
44
Of Suspicion.
88
Of Suitors.
133
Of Travel.
46
Of Truth.
1
Of Vain Glory.
142
Of Vicissitude of Things.
152
Of Unity in Religion.
5
Of Usury.
110
Of Wisdom for a Mans Self.
62
Of Youth and Age.
114
A Fragment of an Essay of Fame.
158
A Civil Character of Julius Caesar.
160
A Civil Character of Augustus Caesar.
166
FINIS.
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