The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~53,900 words · 256 passages
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What it is about
The Essays (1597–1625): short counsels on truth, death, love, gardens and power.
Context and history
What Montaigne made expansive, Bacon makes dry: short sentences, no 'I', built to be remembered. They grew from ten to fifty-eight over his lifetime, and they are the book of his still read for pleasure.
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SALOMON saies; A good Name is as a precious oyntment; And I assure my selfe, such wil your Graces Name bee, with Posteritie. For your Fortune, and Merit both, have been Eminent. And you have planted Things, that are like to last. I doe now publish my Essayes; which, of all my other workes, have beene most Currant: For that, as it seemes, they come home, to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes.…
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