Excerpt from Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil: With Notes and Glossarial Index

Under t/ie date 5 Feb. 1 596 tlze following entry oc curs in Me books oft/lo Stationers' Company. H¿frey Hooper. E ntred for this topic under tliandes of Mr Fs' Bacon Mr D Stan/lope Mr Badowe, and Mr War den Dawson, (1 booke intituled E ssaies Religious inedi tatians, places of pcrswasion and diswasion by Mr Fr. Bacon. T bis was tbe/z'rst edition of Bacon's Essays. Tbcy were publishd in a small volume, of tonic/1 tfiefnll title is as follows E ssa yes. Religions Medi tations. Places of perswasion and dzlsszaasion. Scene and allowed. At London, Printed for Humfi'ey Hooper, and are to be sold at like blacke Beare in C/zanncery Lane. 77m dedication to Antony Bacon occu pies tbree pages. T ben' follow tbc table of Contents and Ike Essays, ten in number, 1 Of stndie. 2 Of dis course. 3. Of Ceremonies and respec'is. 4. Of jol lowers and friends. 5 Sutors. 6. Of expence. 7. O/ Regiment of dealt/i. 8. Of Honour and reputation. 9. Of Fattion. 10. Of Negvciating'. T be eng) occupy tbirteen jolios, and are followed by tbc Medi tationes Sacra, or Relzgrions Meditations, in Latin.

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