The Essays
Original title: Essays
Also published as: The essayes or counsels, civill and morall
earliest edition we have, 1902 IndyPublish.com, 2005 hardcover 172 pages
"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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