FRANCIS BACON (by Charlton T. Lewis) -- 1561-1626

Of Truth ('Essays')

Of Revenge (same)

Of Simulation and Dissimulation (same)

Of Travel (same)

Of Friendship (same)

Defects of the Universities ('The Advancement of Learning')

To My Lord Treasurer Burghley

In Praise of Knowledge

To the Lord Chancellor

To Villiers on his Patent as a Viscount

Charge to Justice Hutton

A Prayer, or Psalm

From the 'Apophthegms'

Translation of the 137th Psalm

The World's a Bubble

WALTER BAGEHOT (by Forrest Morgan) -- 1826-1877

The Virtues of Stupidity ('Letters on the French Coup d'État')

Review Writing ('The First Edinburgh Reviewers')

Lord Eldon (same)

Taste ('Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Browning')

Causes of the Sterility of Literature ('Shakespeare')

The Search for Happiness ('William Cowper')

On Early Reading ('Edward Gibbon')

The Cavaliers ('Thomas Babington Macaulay')

Morality and Fear ('Bishop Butler')

The Tyranny of Convention ('Sir Robert Peel')

How to Be an Influential Politician ('Bolingbroke')

Conditions of Cabinet Government ('The English Constitution')

Why Early Societies could not be Free ('Physics and Politics')

Benefits of Free Discussion in Modern Times (same)

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