“Reading history makes people wise, reading poetry makes people smart, mathematics makes people thoughtful, science makes people profound, ethics makes people solemn, and the study of logic and rhetoric makes people eloquent: whoever learns something, All become characters."

Source: On Reading in "Bacon's Essays" by Francis Bacon of England.

"Bacon's Essays" is the pioneer work of British essay literature. With its concise language, beautiful writing style, thorough reasoning, and repeated aphorisms, it occupies a very important position in the history of world literature. Extended information

"Bacon's Essays" was written by Francis Bacon, a famous British thinker, politician and empirical philosopher in the seventeenth century. This book is divided into "On the Pursuit of Knowledge" and "On Beauty" , "On Goodness", "On Truth", "On Health", "On Family", "On Friendship" and many other essays.

In "On the Pursuit of Knowledge", Bacon said: "Man's Nature is like wild flowers and plants, and seeking knowledge and learning is like pruning and transplanting." It can be seen that seeking knowledge can change people's destiny and is very important in our lives.

From the "On Truth", "On Death", "On Human Nature" and other chapters in "Bacon's Essays", we can see a Bacon who loves philosophy. From chapters such as "On High Officials", "On Royal Power" and "On Ambition", we can see a Bacon who was passionate about politics and well versed in the operation of officialdom. From the chapters "On Love", "On Friendship", "On Marriage and Celibacy", etc.

You can see a bacon full of interest in life. From the chapters "On Adversity", "On Luck", "On Disability" and other chapters, we can see a Bacon who is constantly striving for self-improvement. From chapters such as "On Forgery and Disguise" and "On Speech", we can see a scheming and sophisticated Bacon.

The content is mainly short essays of an argumentative nature, mainly describing Bacon's attitudes and thoughts on things from different perspectives. The content involves politics, economy, religion, love, marriage, friendship, art, education, ethics and many other aspects.

There are famous chapters such as "On Reading", "On Truth", "On Jealousy", "On Death" and "On Beauty". It is Bacon's representative work in literature, with concise language, beautiful writing, thorough reasoning, and repeated aphorisms, which contains the essence of Bacon's thoughts.

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