The Essays of Francis Bacon
The Essays of Francis Bacon CD jacket cover

The Essays of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon


Francis Bacon thought of his Essays as “recreation of my other studies” in politics, law, natural philosophy, and science. First published in 1597 as Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed, the collection was expanded to 38 essays in 1612 and again in 1625 to 58 essays under the title Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. The Essays have no logical sequence or theme (ironic for the man who brought method and organization to science) and find their topics in diverse areas, public and private. Bacon had a gift for making catchy phrases, and many expressions still in use are found first in the Essays. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations contains 91 quotations from the Essays. Although the treatments vary in style from the unadorned to the epigrammatic, he invariably covers the topic at hand from all angles in a systematic and considered fashion. They were well received and so well done that some have thought of Bacon as the originator of the essay form; they clearly stand with the work of Aristotle and Montaigne and have stood the test of time.

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Read by: Carl Vonnoh, III
Length: 6 hours and 20 minutes
Type: Solo reading
Media: MP3 CD
Package: CD jacket
Item No.: CJ-1112
EAN: 0686175923476
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Cover: Portrait of Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban, by John Vanderbank, (1731?), after a portrait by an unknown artist
Inset: Title page to 1696 edition of The Essays
Inset: Engraved portrait of Francis Bacon by Drebble
Insert: Background art: Frontispiece to Instauratio magna, London 1620

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Table of Contents

Track Title Length
01 01 - Essay 1 Of Truth 5:24
02 02 - Essay 2 Of Death 4:39
03 03 - Essay 3 Of Unity In Religion 10:29
04 04 - Essay 4 Of Revenge 3:21
05 05 - Essay 5 Of Adversity 3:04
06 06 - Essay 6 Of Simulation And Dissimulation 7:28
07 07 - Essay 7 Of Parents And Children 3:41
08 08 - Essay 8 Of Marriage And Single Life 4:30
09 09 - Essay 9 Of Envy 11:37
10 10 - Essay 10 Of Love 4:38
11 11 - Essay 11 Of Great Place 8:56
12 12 - Essay 12 Of Great Place 4:24
13 13 - Essay 13 Of Goodness and Goodness Of Nature 5:57
14 14 - Essay 14 Of Nobility 3:45
15 15 - Essay 15 Of Seditions And Troubles 16:27
16 16 - Essay 16 Of Atheism 7:33
17 17 - Essay 17 Of Superstition 3:50
18 18 - Essay 18 Of Travel 5:27
19 19 - Essay 19 Of Empire 11:40
20 20 - Essay 20 Of Counsel 11:14
21 21 - Essay 21 Of Delays 2:30
22 22 - Essay 22 Of Cunning 8:44
23 23 - Essay 23 Of Wisdom For A Man's Self 3:49
24 24 - Essay 24 Of Innovations 3:11
25 25 - Essay 25 Of Dispatch 4:19
26 26 - Essay 26 Of Seeming Wise 3:31
27 27 - Essay 27 Of Friendship 16:44
28 28 - Essay 28 Of Expense 2:55
29 29 - Essay 29 Of the True Greatness Of Kingdoms And Estates 21:23
30 30 - Essay 30 Of Regiment Of Health 4:15
31 31 - Essay 31 Of Suspicion 2:50
32 32 - Essay 32 Of Discourse 4:31
33 33 - Essay 33 Of Plantations 7:27
34 34 - Essay 34 Of Riches 8:23
35 35 - Essay 35 Of Prophecies 6:41
36 36 - Essay 36 Of Ambition 4:59
37 37 - Essay 37 Of Masques And Triumphs 4:27
38 38 - Essay 38 Of Nature In Men 3:59
39 39 - Essay 39 Of Custom And Education 4:24
40 40 - Essay 40 Of Fortune 4:35
41 41 - Essay 41 Of Usury 9:03
42 42 - Essay 42 Of Youth And Age 5:02
43 43 - Essay 43 Of Beauty 3:05
44 44 - Essay 44 Of Deformity 3:18
45 45 - Essay 45 Of Building 9:53
46 46 - Essay 46 Of Gardens 16:19
47 47 - Essay 47 Of Negotiating 3:40
48 48 - Essay 48 Of Followers And Friends 3:56
49 49 - Essay 49 Of Suitors 4:28
50 50 - Essay 50 Of Studies 3:59
51 51 - Essay 51 Of Faction 4:26
52 52 - Essay 52 Of Ceremonies And Respects 4:02
53 53 - Essay 53 Of Praise 4:31
54 54 - Essay 54 Of Honor And Reputation 4:53
55 55 - Essay 55 Of Honor And Reputation 4:55
56 56 - Essay 56 Of Judicature 10:42
57 57 - Essay 57 Of Anger 5:02
58 58 - Essay 58 Of Vicissitude Of Things 13:17
59 59 - Essay 59 Of Fame 4:20

 

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