OR

COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL

OF

FRANCIS BACON, visecurit 3. Alban's

LORD VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE, M.A.

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN THE

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD.

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Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1905