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Francis Bacon
1561 AD — 1626 AD
English philosopher, lawyer and essayist who joined questions about knowledge to practical conduct. His concise essays invite a slower reading of the argument around each memorable sentence.
Author and source reference ↗Life and writing
Francis Bacon lived from 1561 to 1626 and worked in English law and public office alongside his writing. His philosophical projects sought to improve inquiry through observation, experiment and organized cooperation. His Essays appeared in successive editions in 1597, 1612 and 1625. Those short pieces belong to his moral and political writing, alongside a larger program concerned with the advancement of knowledge.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Francis Bacon ↗ Life in Philosophy, Politics and Law; introduction on experiment and collaboration
The Essays consider subjects such as truth, revenge and study in compact arguments. The linked English reading edition provides those essays as complete pieces. Compare an anthology selection with the surrounding essay to see how an image or recommendation works in context. A work recommendation identifies a useful destination; it does not make every entry attributed to Bacon a passage from the Essays.
Project Gutenberg — The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, PG 575 ↗ PG575 English text, Of Truth, Of Revenge and Of Studies; original reading guidance
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Read the selected passages on truth, revenge and study, then follow one subject into its whole essay. Notice where a sentence describes human behavior and where it recommends a course of action. Keep the source reference visible: this author’s archive also includes selections assigned to other works and later supplied attributions. The approximate 1593 coordinate on the anthology entries is a lifetime midpoint, not their composition year or the publication date of the recommended edition.
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Original agent-assisted editorial profile, checked 2026-10-05. No human review is recorded. Life dates are recorded to the year; they do not date individual quotations.