Francis Bacon at 9 Years of Age.From the bust at Gorhambury.
THE MYSTERY
OF
FRANCIS BACON
BY
WILLIAM T. SMEDLEY.
Ad D.B.
| "Si bene qui latuit, bene vixit, tu bene vivis: Ingeniumque tuum grande latendo patet." |
| —John Owen's Epigrammatum, 1612. |
LONDON:
ROBERT BANKS & SON,
RACQUET COURT, FLEET STREET E.C.
1912.
"But such is the infelicity and unhappy dispositionof the human mind in the course of invention that itfirst distrusts and then despises itself: first will notbelieve that any such thing can be found out; andwhen it is found out, cannot understand how the worldshould have missed it so long."
—"Novum Organum," Chap. CX.
iii
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| Preface | 5 | |
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. — | Sources of Information | 9 |
| II. — | The Stock from which Bacon Came | 14 |
| III. — | Francis Bacon, 1560 to 1572 | 19 |
| IV. — | At Cambridge | 25 |
| V. — | Early Compositions | 29 |
| VI. — | Bacon's "Temporis Partus Maximus" | 36 |
| VII. — | Bacon's First Allegorical Romance | 47 |
| VIII. — | Bacon in France, 1576-1579 | 52 |
| IX. — | Bacon's Suit on His Return ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |