The Essays

Francis Bacon

Original title: Essays

Also published as: The essayes or counsels, civill and morall

earliest edition we have, 1902 IndyPublish.com, 2005 hardcover 172 pages

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"Bacon's Essays have attracted an eager readership since their publication in 1625. They sum up a lifetime's observations on the whole range of human activity, by one of the keenest minds of the Renaissance. In their third and final revision Bacon designed the Essays to fill some of the gaps he had diagnosed in the study of mankind, such as the formative influences on individual behaviour of birth and temperament, of...

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Editions we hold

Essays oder praktische und moralische Ratschläge paperback · 2011 · Reclam-Verlag · 240 pages · 9783150083581
Essays hardcover · 2007 · IndyPublish · 172 pages · 9781435369443
Essays paperback · 2007 · IndyPublish · 172 pages · 9781435339354
Essays paperback · 2007 · Cosimo Classics · 156 pages · 9781602060760
The Essays paperback · 2006 · Dodo Press · 160 pages · 9781406503814
Essays hardcover · 2006 · IndyPublish · 172 pages · 9781428023116
The Essays paperback · 2005 · Nuvision Publications · 176 pages · 9781595479648
Essays hardcover · 2005 · IndyPublish.com · 172 pages · 9781421906225
The Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral paperback · 2005 · BARNES & NOBLE BOOKS
The Essays paperback · 2005 · Digireads.com · 88 pages · 9781420925890
Essays paperback · 2005 · IndyPublish.com · 172 pages · 9781421906232
Essays paperback · 2003 · IndyPublish.com · 172 pages · 9781404349551

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