Essays of Francis Bacon asks: WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients.
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Essays of Francis Bacon asks: WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be, that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients.
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Publisher:
Mount Vernon, NY, The Peter Pauper Press
Published:
1965
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
9074624785
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Seller's Description:
Fine. No Dj. Book Quarto, hardcover, fine. Reprinted from Deluxe Artists Edition. Collectible. Bound in tan cloth & red and tan decorated boards. Nice clean copy. The essays. or counsels, civil and moral, of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans. Almost as new 228 pp., and glossary.
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Collectible. Fine in Very Good jacket. Book Quarto, hardcover, fine in near fine slipcase. Collectible. Contains publisher's write-up to promote the book. Bound in green cloth & decorated boards. Nice clean copy protected in tissue dustjacket in slipcase. Almost as new. Introduction by Christopher Morley, postscript by A.S.W. Rosenbach, 190pp.,
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Very Good. Hard Cover--1/4 Leather--Very Good--Member News pamphlet included--Gilt to top edge and gilt embossing to spine--Clean and tight with only lightest wear--No date noted, circa 1950's.
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Good. Undated. Introduction by Henry Morley. Nameplate on endpaper. Includes the Fine Editions Club newsletter which gives a summary of the book and info on the author. Book and boards are clean, light fraying on the red cloth edges. 140 pages.
