The Essays

  • The Essays: Francis Bacon
    By Francis Bacon

    The Essays (1625) is a collection of writings by Francis Bacon, one of England’s most prominent philosophers and scientists whose work was central to shaping the ideals of the Renaissance and scientific revolution.

  • The Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon
    By Francis Bacon, Samuel Harvey Reynolds

    The Essays - or Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890.

  • The Essays: A Selection
    By Michel de Montaigne

    A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in ...

  • The Essays
    By Francis Bacon

    Discusses truth, death, revenge, adversity, envy, marriage, love, goodness, superstition, friendship, ambition, aging, beauty, gardens, and honor

  • The Essays: Francis Bacon
    By Francis Bacon

    The Essays (1625) is a collection of writings by Francis Bacon, one of England's most prominent philosophers and scientists whose work was central to shaping the ideals of the Renaissance and scientific revolution.

  • The Essays: Or Counsels, Civil & Moral, of Francis Bacon
    By Francis Bacon

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.