Francis BaconBritish Council, 1978 - 46 páginas 'He is the supreme English exemplar of the Baroque Man, a master of the traditions and methods of the past, able to exploit or surpass or vary them with adroit dislocations, reversals, twistings .... His goal was power for grand ends and philanthropic glory. He won both, and contempt as well.' So Professor Patrick sums up the career of Francis Bacon, one of the most versatile and many-sided of men in an age of extraordinary virtuosity and versatility. 'I have taken all knowledge to be my province', he wrote at the age of twenty-three, and he interested himself in all branches of learning known to his age. A superb English stylist distinguished in law and politics, he also awakened his contemporaries to the potentialities and achievements of science. He could assume any role and, as Professor Patrick points out, this suppleness has ensured that today, more than four hundred years since his birth, the controversies over his career and achievements still continue |
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... strong in this work . The fable of Pan draws its interpretations from the realms of vision , magnetism , astronomy , astrology , meteor- ology , music , psychology , physics , bringing in some of Bacon's key ideas ( VI , 707-714 ) . The ...
... strong and great winds from the south , with a point east ; which carried us up ( for all that we could do ) towards the north : by which time our victuals failed us , though we had made good spare of them . So that finding ourselves in ...
... strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell truth , and to do it ' ( VI , 387 ) -only the weak and cowardly cannot face telling the truth ; while the conclusion accepts the realities of political deception as a last resort ; the ...
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Writers and Their Work: Francis Bacon ; by Brian Vickers, Tema 265 Brian Vickers Sin vista previa disponible - 1977 |