Excerpt from Bacon's Essays With Introduction, Notes, and Index, Vol. 1 of 2 By way of illustrating Bacon's style and method, the ten Essays of 1597 are printed (and, in accordance with the principle stated above, in their original Spelling) below the corresponding Essays of a.d. 1625. The comparison of these may furnish a useful exercise in composition but it has not been thought necessary to add in full the edition of a.d. 1612, some account of which will, however, be found in the Notes, and in the Appendix in the second volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.