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Sir Francis Bacon
(1561 - 1626 / England)
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Sir Francis Bacon Francis Bacon was the son of Nicolas Bacon, the Lord Keeper of the Seal of Elisabeth I. He entered Trinity College Cambridge at age 12. Bacon later described his tutors as "Men of sharp wits, shut up in their cells of a few authors, chiefly Aristotle, their Dictator." This is likely the beginning of Bacon's rejection of Aristotelianism and Scholasticism and the new Renaissance Humanism. more >>
 
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''Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.''
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626), British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Adversity," (1597-1625).
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Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of the Law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him...
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626), British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Boldness," (1597-1625). Referring to a tradition relating to Muha...
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