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The essays or counsels, civil and moral

Focusing on the ethical, political and historical constraints and influences on human behaviour and following principles laid down by rhetorical theory, Bacon used this work to systematize his observations on such diverse topics as beauty, deformity, fortune, adversity and ambition.
Print Book, English, cop. 1999
Oxford University Press, New York, cop. 1999
XLIII, 216 p. 20 cm
9780192838025, 0192838024
1087547001