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Essayes Or Counsels Civill & Morall

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J.M. Dent & Company, 1897 - Conduct of life - 243 pages

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Index

Contents

Of Truth THE TABLE	1

Of Death	2

Of Unitie in Religion	3

Of Revenge	4

Of Adversitie	5

Of Simulation and Dissimulation	6

Of Parents and Children	7

Of Marriage and Single Life	8

J18 Of Travaile	63

Of Empire	66

Of Counsell	72

PAGE	79

Of Cunning	80

Of Wisdome for a Mans Selfe	85

Of Innovations	87

Of Dispatch	89

Of Envie	9

Of Delaies	21

Of Suspicion	31

Of Love	32

Of Plantations	33

Of Riches	34

Of Great Place	35

Of Boldnesse	39

4 13 Of Goodnesse and Goodnesse of Nature	42

Of Nobilitie	52

15 Of Seditions and Troubles	53

Of Atheisme	57

Of Superstition	60

Of Seeming Wise	91

Of Frendship	93

Of Expence	103

29 Of the true Greatnesse of Kingdomes and Estates	105

Of Regiment of Health	118

41 Of Usury 42 Of Youth and Age 43 Of Beautie 44 Of Deformitie 45 Of Building 46 Of Gardens	168

7	197

15	234

21	235

35	239

47	241

72	242

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The Essayes, Or Counsels, Civill & Morall of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam
Francis Bacon,William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
Full view - 1907

The Essayes, Or Counsels, Civill & Morall of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam
Francis Bacon
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The Essayes Or Counsels, Civill and Morall
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Bibliographic information

Title	Essayes Or Counsels Civill & Morall Temple classics The temple classics, edited by Israel Gollancz
Author	Francis Bacon
Edition	6
Publisher	J.M. Dent & Company, 1897
Original from	Cornell University
Digitized	6 Feb 2012
Length	243 pages

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