Essays of Francis Bacon

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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. I have enlarged them both in Number and Weight; So that they are indeed a New Worke. I thought it therefore agreeable to my Affection and Obligation to your Grace to prefix your Name before them both in English and in Latine. For I doe conceive that the Latine Volume of them (being in the Universall Language) may last as long as Bookes last. My Instauration I dedicated to the King: My Historie of Henry the Seventh (which I have now also translated into Latine) and my Portions of Naturall History to the Prince: And these I dedicate to your Grace; Being of the best Fruits that by the good Encrease which God gives to my Pen and Labours I could yeeld. God leade your Grace by the Hand. Your Graces most Obliged and faithfull Servant