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Excerpt from Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil: With Notes and Glossarial Index
Uivder t/ze date 5 Feb. 1596 t/ze following entij/ oc curs in t/ze books of tile Stationers' Company: Huff'ey Hooper. Entred for lzis copie under t/zandes of Mr Fr' Bacon Mr D Stan/lope Mr Barlowe, and Mr War den Dawson, a [woke intituled Essa ies Religious medi talions, places of perswasion and diswasion oy Mr Fr. Bacon. T nis was t/zeflrst edition of Bacon's Essays. T licy were publis/zea' in a small volume, of w/ziclz t/ze full title is as follows Essayes. Religious Medi tations. Places of perswasion and dzsswasion. Scene and allowed. At London, Printed for Humfrey Hooper, and are to be sold at Me alacke Beare in C/zauncery Lane. 771e dedication to Antony Bacon occu pies t/rree pages. T lien follow lkc table of Contents and tfie Essays, ten in number; I. Of studie. 2. Of dis course. 3. Of Ceremonies and respec'ts. 4. Of fol lowers and friends. 5. Sutors. 6. Of expence. 7. O/ Regiment of lzealt/z. 8. Of Honour and reputation. 9. Of Faction. 10. Of Negociating. T be Essays occupy t/zirteen jolz'os, and are followed by t/ze Medi tationes or Religious Meditations, in Latin.
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