Bacon, Francis

An English politician, scientist, and author of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; one of the leaders of the Renaissance in England . ( See also under “Literature in English.” )

Bacon, Francis

An English author of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Bacon is known in philosophy for his defense of the scientific method ( see Baconian method ). In literature, he is known for his essays ; they contain such memorable thoughts as “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”

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Bacon has sometimes been mentioned as a possible author of the plays commonly attributed to William Shakespeare .

She gives no nods to the Humanists, like Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Erasmus, or Descartes.

And the evangelicals have been especially irked by the recent sale of a Francis Bacon triptych for an astounding $142 million.

Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Francis Bacon, and John Milton all kept them, to name a few.

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The Met is celebrating Francis Bacon's centenary with a grand retrospective.

So said Francis Bacon, one of the world's greatest philosophers, and history has proved his saying to be true.

The suit dragged for a few years, was in part referred to Francis Bacon, and finally in the summer of 1601 was dismissed.

In the words of a wise old man of the world, Francis Bacon, "He who marries and has children gives hostages to fortune."

It was here that no less a man than Francis Bacon was born, and he retained possession of the dwelling until his death.

In this house the great Francis Bacon was born, on the 22d of January, 1561.

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