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CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. Bacon, by Richard William Church The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bacon, by Richard William Church This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Bacon English Men Of Letters, Edited By John Morley Author: Richard William Church Bacon, by Richard William Church 1 Release Date: October 29, 2004 [EBook #13888] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BACON *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Michael Punch and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. BACON BY R.W. CHURCH DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S HONORARY FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS. EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY. JOHNSON Leslie Stephen. GIBBON J.C. Morison. SCOTT R.H. Hutton. SHELLEY J.A. Symonds. HUME T.H. Huxley. GOLDSMITH William Black. DEFOE William Minto. BURNS J.C. Shairp. SPENSER R.W. Church. THACKERAY Anthony Trollope. BURKE John Morley. MILTON Mark Pattison. HAWTHORNE Henry James, Jr. SOUTHEY E. Dowden. CHAUCER A.W. Ward. BUNYAN J.A. Froude. COWPER Goldwin Smith. POPE Leslie Stephen. BYRON John Nichol. LOCKE Thomas Fowler. WORDSWORTH F. Myers. DRYDEN G. Saintsbury. LANDOR Sidney Colvin. DE QUINCEY David Masson. LAMB Alfred Ainger. BENTLEY R.C. Jebb. DICKENS A.W. Ward. GRAY E.W. Gosse. SWIFT Leslie Stephen. STERNE H.D. Traill. MACAULAY J. Cotter Morison. FIELDING Austin Dobson. SHERIDAN Mrs. Oliphant ADDISON W.J. Courthope. BACON R.W. Church. COLERIDGE H.D. Traill. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY J.A. Symonds. KEATS Sidney Colvin. 12mo, Cloth, 75 cents per volume. Other volumes in preparation. * * * * * PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. Any of the above works will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States or Canada, on receipt of the price. PREFACE. In preparing this sketch it is needless to say how deeply I am indebted to Mr. Spedding and Mr. Ellis, the last editors of Bacon's writings, the very able and painstaking commentators, the one on Bacon's life, the other on his philosophy. It is impossible to overstate the affectionate care and high intelligence and honesty with which Mr. Spedding has brought together and arranged the materials for an estimate of Bacon's character. In the result, in spite of the force and ingenuity of much of his pleading, I find myself most reluctantly obliged to differ from him; it seems to me to be a case where the French saying, cited by Bacon in one of his Bacon, by Richard William Church 2 commonplace books, holds good "Par trop se débattre, la vérité se perd."[1] But this does not diminish the debt of gratitude which all who are interested about Bacon must owe to Mr. Spedding. I wish also to acknowledge the assistance which I have received from Mr. Gardiner's History of England and Mr. Fowler's edition of the Novum Organum; and not least from M. de Rémusat's work on Bacon, which seems to me the most complete and the most just estimate both of Bacon's character and work which has yet appeared; though even in this clear and dispassionate survey we are reminded by some misconceptions, strange in M. de Rémusat, how what one nation takes for granted is incomprehensible to its neighbour; and what a gap there is still, even in matters of philosophy and literature, between the whole Continent and ourselves "Penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos." FOOTNOTES: [1] Promus: edited by Mrs. H. Pott, p. 475. CONTENTS. Bacon, by Richard William Church 3 CHAPTER I. PAGE EARLY LIFE 1 CHAPTER I. 4 CHAPTER II. BACON AND ELIZABETH 26 CHAPTER II. 5 CHAPTER III. BACON AND JAMES I. 55 CHAPTER III. 6 CHAPTER IV. BACON SOLICITOR-GENERAL 77 CHAPTER IV. 7 CHAPTER V. BACON ATTORNEY-GENERAL AND CHANCELLOR 95 CHAPTER V. 8 CHAPTER VI. BACON'S FALL 118 CHAPTER VI. 9 CHAPTER VII. BACON'S LAST YEARS 1621-1626 149 CHAPTER VII. 10 [...]... more often disappointed than not, of hitting her taste on some lucky occasion, and being rewarded for the accident by a place of gain or honour Bacon' s history, as read in his letters, is not an agreeable one; after every allowance made for the fashions of language and the necessities of a suitor, there is too much of insincere profession of disinterestedness, too much of exaggerated profession of admiration... dedication of all men' s abilities Besides, I do not find in myself so much self-love, but that the greater parts of my thoughts are to deserve well (if I be able) of my friends, and namely of your Lordship; who, being the Atlas of this commonwealth, the honour of my house, and the second founder of my poor estate, I am tied by all duties, both of a good patriot, and of an unworthy kinsman, and of an obliged... seeking after government employment, which could give credit to his name and put money in his pocket attempts by general behaviour, by professional services when the occasion offered, by putting his original and fertile pen at the service of the government, to win confidence, and to overcome the manifest indisposition of those in power to think that a man who cherished the chimera of universal knowledge... which Bacon himself afterwards lived as Lord Chancellor, and which passed after his fall into the hands of the Duke of Buckingham, who has left his mark in the Water Gate which is now seen, far from the river, in the garden of the Thames Embankment His father was Sir Nicholas Bacon, Elizabeth's first Lord Keeper, the fragment of whose effigy in the Crypt of St Paul's is one of the few relics of the... grandly, "in the eyes of Bacon like the hope of the world." The two men, certainly, became warmly attached Their friendship came to be one of the closest kind, full of mutual services, and of genuine affection on both sides It was not the relation of a great patron and useful dependant; it was, what might be expected in the two men, that of affectionate equality Each man was equally capable of seeing what... as Bacon afterwards maintained, the closing sentences of this letter implied a significant reserve of his devotion But during the brilliant and stormy years of Essex's career which followed, Bacon' s relations to him continued unaltered Essex pressed Bacon' s claims whenever a chance offered He did his best to get Bacon a rich wife the young widow of Sir Christopher Hatton but in vain Instead of Bacon. .. "because the work of exhortation doth chiefly rest upon these men, and they have a zeal and hate of sin." But he ends by warning them lest "that be true which one of their adversaries said, that they have but two small wants knowledge and love." One complaint that he makes of them is a curious instance of the changes of feeling, or at least of language, on moral subjects He accuses them of "having pronounced... impenetrable as the phenomena of the natural world It was no use attacking in front, and by a direct trial of strength, people like Elizabeth or Cecil or James; he might as well think of forcing some natural power in defiance of natural law The first word of his teaching about nature is that she must be won by observation of her tendencies and demands; the same radical disposition of temper reveals itself...CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER VIII BACON' S PHILOSOPHY 168 11 CHAPTER IX CHAPTER IX BACON AS A WRITER 198 BACON 12 CHAPTER I 13 CHAPTER I EARLY LIFE The life of Francis Bacon is one which it is a pain to write or to read It is the life of a man endowed with as rare a combination of noble gifts as ever was bestowed on a human intellect; the life of one with whom the whole purpose of living and of every day's work was... solution of all the difficulties, and in his discipline a remedy for all the evils, of mankind This means that his boyhood from the first was passed among the high places of the world at one of the greatest crises of English history in the very centre and focus of its agitations He was brought up among the chiefs and leaders of the rising religion, in the houses of the greatest and most powerful persons of . terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Bacon English Men Of Letters, Edited By John Morley Author: Richard William Church Bacon, by. Distributed Proofreading Team. BACON BY R.W. CHURCH DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S HONORARY FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE ENGLISH MEN OF LETTERS. EDITED BY JOHN MORLEY. JOHNSON Leslie Stephen. GIBBON J.C a suitor, there is too much of insincere profession of disinterestedness, too much of exaggerated profession of admiration and devoted service, too much of disparagement and insinuation against