Origin: On reading in Francis Bacon's Essays on Bacon.
Bacon's Essays is a pioneering work of English essay literature, which occupies a very important position in the history of world literature with its concise language, beautiful writing, thorough reasoning and repeated epigrams.
Francis Bacon, a famous British thinker, politician and empiricist philosopher in the 17th century, wrote The Essays on Bacon. This book is divided into several essays, such as On Knowledge, On Beauty, On Kindness, On Truth, On Health, On Family and on Friendship.
In On Knowledge, Bacon said: "Human nature is like wild flowers and plants, and knowledge learning is like pruning and transplanting." It can be seen that knowledge can change people's fate and is very important in our life.
From the chapters on truth, death and human nature in Bacon's Essays, we can see a Bacon who loves philosophy. From the chapters of "on senior officials", "on kingship" and "on ambition", we can see a Bacon who is keen on politics and well versed in the operation of officialdom. From the chapters of "on love", "on friendship" and "on marriage and celibacy".
You can see a bacon full of life interest. From the chapters of "On Adversity", "On Luck" and "On Disability", we can see a self-improvement Bacon. From the chapters of "on forgery and cover-up" and "on speech", we can see a scheming and sophisticated Bacon.
The content is mainly some argumentative essays, which mainly talk about Bacon's attitude and ideas of looking at things from different angles. The content involves politics, economy, religion, love, marriage, friendship, art, education, ethics and many other aspects.
Among them, there are famous chapters such as Talking about Reading, Truth, Jealousy, Death and Beauty. It is a masterpiece of Bacon's literature, with concise language, beautiful writing, thorough reasoning and repeated epigrams, which contains the essence of Bacon's thought.
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