The book collects 32 classic British essays written by well-known British writers, such as Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, John Webster, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, etc. These essays are short and full of life wisdom. These essays are: 01. The Argument of the Rape of Lucrece 02. Let Me Wither 03. Of Studies 04. Of Marriage and Single Life 05. Of Wisdom for a Man's Self 06. A Fair and Happy Milkmaid 07. A Modest Proposal 08. The Spider and the Bee 09. Adventures of A Shilling 10. Letter to His Son 11. Letter to Lord Chesterfield 12. The Pyramids 13. Dream Children 14. The Two Races of Men 15. Grace before Meat 16. Childhood 17. Knowledge and Virtue 18. The Mona Lisa 19. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft 20. On Getting On in the World 21. Three Passions 22. My First Introduction to the Classics 23. Queen Victoria at the End of Her Life 24. My Father: Leslie Stephen 25. The Death of the Moth 26. Professions for Women 27. William Joyce 28. Are Women Human? 29. Shooting an Elephant 30. General Lee 31. Tourists 32. Calcutta
Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban KC, son of Nicholas Bacon by his second wife Anne (Cooke) Bacon, was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific revolution. Bacon was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and Viscount St Alban in 1621.
There are some scholars who believe that Bacon's vision for a Utopian New World in North America was laid out in his novel The New Atlantis, which depicts a mythical island, Bensalem, in the Pacific Ocean west of Peru. He envisioned a land where there would be greater rights for women, the abolishing of slavery, elimination of debtors' prisons, separation of church and state, and freedom of religious and political expression. Francis Bacon played a leading role in creating the British colonies, especially in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Newfoundland.
Thomas Jefferson considered Francis Bacon to be one of the three greatest men who ever lived, "Bacon, Locke and Newton" were "the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception." Francis Bacon's influence can also be seen on a variety of religious and spiritual authors, and on groups that have utilized his writings in their own belief systems.
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