Essays

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book essay collection philosophical work

Essays is a landmark collection of philosophical and moral reflections by Francis Bacon that helped shape the development of the English essay as a literary form.

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instanceOf book →
essay collection →
philosophical work →
author Francis Bacon →
countryOfOrigin England →
expandedEditionYear 1612 →
1625 →
firstPublicationYear 1597 →
genre moral essays →
philosophical essays →
hasInfluenced English prose style →
essay as a literary form →
hasPart Of Adversity →
Of Ambition →
Of Anger →
Of Atheism →
Of Beauty →
Of Boldness →
Of Building →
Of Ceremonies and Respects →
Of Counsel →
Of Cunning →
Of Custom and Education →
Of Death →
Of Deformity →
Of Delays →
Of Discourse →
Of Dispatch →
Of Empire →
Of Envy →
Of Expense →
Of Faction →
Of Followers and Friends →
Of Fortune →
Of Friendship →
Of Gardens →
Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature →
Of Great Place →
Of Honour and Reputation →
Of Innovations →
Of Judicature →
Of Love →
Of Marriage and Single Life →
Of Masques and Triumphs →
Of Nature in Men →
Of Negotiating →
Of Nobility →
Of Parents and Children →
Of Plantations →
Of Praise →
Of Prophecies →
Of Regiment of Health →
Of Revenge →
Of Riches →
Of Seditions and Troubles →
Of Seeming Wise →
Of Simulation and Dissimulation →
Of Studies →
Of Suitors →
Of Superstition →
Of Suspicion →
Of Travel →
Of Truth →
Of Unity in Religion →
Of Usury →
Of Vain-glory →
Of Vicissitude of Things →
Of Wisdom for a Man’s Self →
Of Youth and Age →
Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates →
language English →
literaryForm essay →
mainTheme ethics →
human nature →
politics →
practical wisdom →
notableFor influence on development of the English essay →
moral reflections →
philosophical reflections on human conduct →
publicationCentury 17th century →
writtenByOccupation essayist →
philosopher →
statesman →
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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Francis Bacon →
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