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Francis Bacon   /frˈænsəs bˈeɪkən/   Listen
Francis Bacon

noun
1.
English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626).  Synonyms: 1st Baron Verulam, Bacon, Baron Verulam, Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans.






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"Francis Bacon" Quotes from Famous Books



... in one of the houses on the south side, looking upon Lincoln's Inn Fields; and Dr. Johnson, who lived at the sign of the Golden Anchor, Holborn Bars. There were also the Bishops of Ely, Sir Christopher Hatton, Francis Bacon, Sir Thomas More, Charles Dickens, Fulke Greville, Thomas Chatterton, Lord Russell, Dr. Sacheverell, ...
— Holborn and Bloomsbury - The Fascination of London • Sir Walter Besant

... end came closer to him than any of the Greeks. The moralising reflection, the satirical tendency, the declamatory form of the Romans, all had an irresistible attraction for him.[179] Both Roger Bacon and Francis Bacon had preceded him in admiration for Seneca, and Montaigne found Cicero tiresome and unprofitable compared with the author of the Epistles to Lucilius. "When there comes any misfortune to a European," says the imaginary oriental of Montesquieu's Persian Letters, "his only resource is the reading ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley

... (not copy, of course) of 1651 Master Izaak Walton, when he came, in his Compleat Angler of 1653, to discuss such abstract questions as the transmission of sound under water, and the ages of carp and pike, must probably have referred. He often mentions "Sir Francis Bacon's" History of Life and Death, which is included in the volume. No doubt it would be more reasonable and more "congruous" that Bacon's book should suggest Bacon. But there it is. That illogical "succession of ideas" which puzzled ...
— De Libris: Prose and Verse • Austin Dobson



Words linked to "Francis Bacon" :   philosopher, 1st Baron Verulam, Sir Francis Bacon, national leader, statesman, Baron Verulam, bacon, solon, Viscount St. Albans



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