- Cover
- Half Title
- Full Title
- Copyright
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- LIFE OF THE HONOURABLE AUTHOR
- GENERAL PREFACE TO BACON'S PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS
- THE PROFICIENCE AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING, DIVINE AND HUMAN—
- VALERIUS TERMINUS (Fragments)—
- FILUM LABYRINTHI SIVE FORMULA INQUISITIONIS (Fragment)—
- THE GREAT INSTAURATION. (Translation)—
- THE SECOND PART OF THE WORK, WHICH IS CALLED THE NEW ORGANON, or TRUE DIRECTIONS CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE—
- PARASCEVE, OR PREPARATIVE TOWARDS A NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HISTORY—
- DE DIGNIT ATE ET AUGMENTIS SCIENTIA RUM. Translation of Books II–IX—
- ON PRINCIPLES AND ORIGINS, according to the Fables of Cupid and Cœlum, etc. (Translation of De Principiis atque Originibus, etc.)—
- A DESCRIPTION OF THE INTELLECTUAL GLOBE. (Translation of the Descriptio Globi Intellectualis)—
- THEORY OF THE EARTH. (Translation of the Thema Cœli)
- ESSAYS, OR COUNCILS CIVIL AND MORAL—
- PREFACE
- THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY
- Essay 1. Of Truth
- 2. Of Death
- 3. Of Unity in Religion
- 4. Of Revenge
- 5. Of Adversity
- 6. Of Simulation and Dissimulation
- 7. Of Parents and Children
- 8. Of Marriage and Single Life
- 9. Of Envy
- 10. Of Love
- 11. Of Great Place
- 12. Of Boldness
- 13. Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
- 14. Of Nobility
- 15. Of Seditions and Troubles
- 16. Of Atheism
- 17. Of Superstition
- 18. Of Travel
- 19. Of Empire
- 20. Of Counsel
- 21. Of Delays
- 22. Of Cunning
- 23. Of Wisdom for a Man's Self
- 24. Of Innovations
- 25. Of Dispatch
- 26. Of Seeming Wise
- 27. Of Friendship
- 28. Of Expense
- 29. Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
- 30. Of Regiment of Health
- 31. Of Suspicion
- 32. Of Discourse
- 33. Of Plantations
- 34. Of Riches
- 35. Of Prophecies
- 36. Of Ambition
- 37. Of Masques and Triumphs
- 38. Of Nature in Men
- 39. Of Custom and Education
- 40. Of Fortune
- 41. Of Usury
- 42. Of Youth and Age
- 43. Of Beauty
- 44. Of Deformity
- 45. Of Building
- 46. Of Gardens
- 47. Of Negotiating
- 48. Of Followers and Friends
- 49. Of Suitors
- 50. Of Studies
- 51. Of Faction
- 52. Of Ceremonies and Respects
- 53. Of Praise
- 54. Of Vain Glory
- 55. Of Honour and Reputation
- 56. Of Judicature
- 57. Of Anger
- 58. Of Vicissitude of Things
- APPENDIX TO THE ESSAYS—
- WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS. (Translation of the De Sapientia Veterum)—
- PREFACE
- Author's Dedication
- Author's Preface
- 1. Cassandra, or Plainness of Speech
- 2. Typhon, or The Rebel
- 3. The Cyclopes, or Ministers of Terror
- 4. Narcissus, or Self-Love
- 5. Styx, or Treaties
- 6. Pan, or Nature
- 7. Perseus, or War
- 8. Endymion, or The Favourite
- 9. The Sister of The Giants, or Fame
- 10. Actæon and Pentheus, or Curiosity
- 11. Orpheus, or Philosophy
- 12. Cœlum, or The Origins of Things
- 13. Proteus, or Matter
- 14. Memnon, or The Early Ripe
- 15. Tithonus, or Satiety
- 16. Juno's Suitor, or Dishonour
- 17. Cupid, or The Atom
- 18. Diomedes, or Religious Zeal
- 19. Dædalus, or The Mechanic
- 20. Erichthonius, or Imposture
- 21. Deucalion, or Restoration
- 22. Nemesis, or The Vicissitude of Things
- 23. Achelous, or The Battle
- 24. Dionysus, or Desire
- 25. Atalanta, or Profit
- 26. Prometheus, or The State of Man
- 27. The Flight of Icarus : also Scylla and Charybdis, or The Middle Way
- 28. Sphinx, or Science
- 29. Proserpina, or Spirit
- 30. Metis, or Counsel
- 31. The Sirens, or Pleasure
- APOPHTHEGMS—
- INDEX
The Philosophical Works of
Francis Bacon
Reprinted from the texts and
translations, with the notes and prefaces,
of
Ellis & Spedding
Edited with an Introduction by
John M. Robertson
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