Essays

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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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Predicate Object
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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