Francis Bacon

Macmillan and Company, 1885 - England - 504 pages

PART I	1

Bacons Youth	11

The Advice to Queen Elizabeth	16

The Controversies of the Church of England	23

Bacons Choice of a Life	26

Bacon Suing	32

Bacons Devices Mr Bacons Discourse in the Praise of his Sovereign Promus 2	40

Bacon as the Counsellor of Essex	53

Bacons Preparation for the Work of a Lord Chancellor	229

The Fall of Coke	238

Bacon becomes Lord Keeper	247

The Lord Keepers Activity	256

The Lord Keeper out of Favour	261

Bacon as Lord Chancellor	267

Preparation for Parliament The Publication of the Novum Organum	278

The Lord Chancellor in Peril	284

The Fall of Essex	59

The Death of Essex	73

The End of the Old Reign	82

The New Reign	93

The Discourse on the Union	101

Bacons Advice on Church Policy	105

Bacon is made SolicitorGeneral	111

Signs of the Coming Revolution	118

17 Cecils Remedy against the Coming Revolution The Great Contract	124

Bacons Private Thoughts on Politics	130

Bacons Defence of the Council of the Marches	135

Bacons Remedy against the Coming Revolution	144

SECTION	146

Bacons Private Plans	152

Literary Work	159

The Decline of Cecil	164

SECTION PAGE 24 The Court of the Verge Death of Cecil	168

Bacon Suing for Promotion	175

Trial of Lord Sanquhar Bacon becomes AttorneyGeneral	180

27 The Policy � gemino	189

28 Bacons Draft of the Kings Speech	202

The Addled Parliament	209

Trials of St John and Peacham	217

Bacons Preparations for a New Parliament	223

The Lord Chancellors Fall	294

Bacons Death	304

Bacon at Home	309

Bacons Character the Problem	317

Bacons Character the Solution	321

PART II	333

The Scheme of the Magna Instauratio	339

Partus Masculus Temporis Valerius Terminus	348

The Advancement of Learning	352

The Delineatio	357

The Cogitata et Visa	360

Filum Labyrinthi Redargutio Philosophiarum	364

De Sapientia Veterum and the Astronomical Treatises	370

The Novum Organum Book 1	376

The Novum Organum Book II	383

Contributions to the Third Part of the Instauratio Magna	398

De Augmentis Sylva Sylvarum	404

The Merits and Demerits of Bacons Philosophy	407

The New Atlantis History of King Henry VII	415

Minor Literary Works	428

APPENDIX I	457

Human Philosophy Man Segregate the Understanding	464

Human Philosophy Man Congregate	471

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