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Essays (Francis Bacon)
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Essayes: Religious Meditations. Places of Perswasion and Disswasion. Seene and Allowed (1597) was the first published book by the philosopher, statesman and jurist Francis Bacon. The Essays are written in a wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic. They cover topics drawn from both public and private life, and in each case the essays cover their topics systematically from a number of different angles, weighing one argument against another. While the original edition included 10 essays, a much-enlarged second edition appeared in 1612 with 38. Another, under the title Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, was published in 1625 with 58 essays. Translations into French and Italian appeared during Bacon's lifetime. In Bacon's essay "Of Plantations", published in 1625, he relates planting colonies to war. He states that such plantations should be governed by those with a commission or authority to exercise martial law.
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Bacon published his _Essays_ in 1597. They were, in the estimation of Mr. Hallam, the first in time and in excellence of English writings on moral prudence. Of the fifty-eight Essays, of which the work is now composed, ten only appeared in the first edition. But to these were added _Religious Meditations, Places of Perswasion and Disswasion, Seene and allowed_; many of which were afterwards embodied in the Essays…
Francis Bacon, Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients
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The essays were published in 1903. At that time (as has been noted) idealism was in practical command of the philosophic field in both England and this country; the logics in vogue were profoundly influenced by Kantian and post-Kantian thought. Empirical logics, those conceived under the influence of Mill, still existed, but their light was dimmed by the radiance of the regnant idealism.
John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
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Meanwhile, within each volume the essays are arranged in order of time: not indeed strictly, but so far as consists with the requirements of sub-classing.
Herbert Spencer, Essays
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Edited, with Introductory Note, by Ernest Rhys. 10 Swift’s Prose Writings. Chosen and Arranged, with Introduction, by Walter Lewin. 11 My Study Windows. By James Russell Lowell. With Introduction by R. Garnett, LL.D. 12 Lowell’s Essays on the English Poets. With a new Introduction by Mr. Lowell. 13 The Biglow Papers. By James Russell Lowell. With a Prefatory Note by Ernest Rhys. 14 Great English Painters. Selected…
David Hume, Hume's Political Discourses
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Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature
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Part of Scientism.