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In preparing the present volume for the press, use has been freely made of several publications which have recently appeared in England. The Biographical Notice of the author is taken from an edition of the Essays, by A. Spiers, Ph. D. To this has been added the Preface to Pickering's edition of the Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients, by Basil Montagu. Feq. Parker's edition, by Thomas Markby, M. A., has farnished the arrangement of the Table prefixed to the Essays, and aisc "the references to the most important quotations." The Notes, including, the translations of the tin, are chiefly copied from Bohr's edition, prepared by Joseph Devey, M. A. We have, given the modern translation of the Wisdom of the Ancients contained in Bohn's edition, in preference to that "done by Sir Arthur Gorges," although the last mentioned has a claim upon regard, as having been made by a contemporary of Lord Bacon, and published in his lifetime. Its language is in the style of English current in the author's age, and for this reason may resemble more nearly what the philosopher himself would have used, had he composed the work in his own tongue instead of Latin.

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Preface by B. Montagu, Esq.

Introductory Notice of the Life and Writings of Bacon, by

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