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9780486454436

Complete Essays

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  • ISBN13:

    9780486454436

  • ISBN10:

    0486454436

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-04-21
  • Publisher: Dover Publications

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Summary

The Elizabethan sage and scholar offers educated opinions on life, death, and everything in between truth, adversity, love, superstition, health, ambition, fame, and many other topics. Wise, witty, and immensely readable, these short but thought-provoking essays constitute an excellent combination of style and substance.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Of Truth
Of Death
Of Unity in Religion
Of Revenge
Of Adversity
Of Simulation and Dissimulation
Of Parents and Children
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Envy
Of Love
Of Great Place
Of Boldness
Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
Of Nobility
Of Seditions and Troubles
Of Atheism
Of Superstition
Of Travel
Of Empire
Of Counsel
Of Delay
Of Cunning
Of Wisdom for a Man's Self
Of Innovations
Of Dispatch
Of Seeming Wise
Of Friendship
Of Expense
Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
Of Regiment of Health
Of Suspicion
Of Discourse
Of Plantation
Of Riches
Of Prophecies
Of Ambition
Of Masques and Triumphs
Of Nature in Men
Of Custom and Education
Of Fortune
Of Usury
Of Youth and Age
Of Beauty
Of Deformity
Of Building
Of Gardens
Of Negociating
Of Followers and Friends
Of Suitors
Of Studies
Of Faction
Of Ceremonies
Of Praise
Of Vain-Glory
Of Honour and Reputation
Of Judicature
Of Anger
Of Vicissitude of Things
Of Fame, a Fragment
Index of Quotations and Foreign Phrases
Glossary

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