Francis Bacon: 94 books

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The Advancement of Learning is a splendid attempt to defend and magnify the pursuit of learning and then to survey the existing state of human knowledge. Part of the argument of the first part has lost its cogency, or even its relevancy, today. But in breadth of view and fertility of suggestion the...

Es muy significativo que ideas y realidades que actualmente se discuten con calor tengan su fuente original en alguna utopía, y que dichas ideas fuesen consideradas en sus días como descabelladas y producto de la imaginación febril de un soñador.

This issue of the Rosicrucian Digest presents a compendium of materials that provide a solid introduction to the most important aspects of Atlantis.

Después de naufragar, ya con las esperanzas perdidas y cansados de rogarle a Dios un milagro, un grupo de hombres llega a una isla, donde, en primera instancia, reciben una negativa ante su inminente desembarque, en un rollo de pergamino-escrito en hebreo y griego antiguos, en latín escolástico...

Example in this ebook   OD almighty first planted a garden: and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment of the spirits of man; without which, buildings or palaces are but gross handy-works: and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility...

Warum haben unverheiratete Männer einen größeren gesellschaftlichen Nutzen als verheiratete? Welche Vorteile bieten Verstellung und Heuchelei? Warum faszinieren uns Liebe und Neid mehr als alle anderen Empfindungen? Diese und viele weitere moralphilosophische Fragen sind auch knapp 400 Jahre nach...

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban(s), was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. He was extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific...