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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

—Of Adversity

Francis
Bacon

Francis Bacon

1561–1626, English philosopher, essayist, and statesman, b. London, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at Gray’s Inn.…. Bacon belongs to both philosophy and literature.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.)

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WORKS: Essays, Civil and Moral
Whether turning a phrase or observing the politics of the day, the Essays epitomize Bacon as the master of English prose. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. III, Part 1.; The New Atlantis
This account of an ideal state reveals both practical methods and unique fantasy. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. III, Part 2.; Prefaces and Prologues
From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXXIX.; Bartlett’s Bacon Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.; Bacon, Francis, 5082 to 5144
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
WRITINGS ABOUT BACON: “Bacon”
Section by W. R. Sorley from the Cambridge History of English Literature.

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