NOVUM ORGANUM

By Lord Bacon

Edited By Joseph Devey

CONTENTS

Preface
Aphorisms—Book I
On the Interpretation of Nature and the Empire of Man
Aphorisms—Book II
On the Interpretation of Nature, or the Reign of Man





BACON IS SHAKE-SPEARE

By Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence

AND

PROMUS OF FOURMES AND ELEGANCYES
BY FRANCIS BACON

Collated By F.B. Bickley, And F.A. Herbert

CONTENTS

BACON IS SHAKESPEARE.

CHAPTER I. — "What does it matter whether the immortal works were written by
CHAPTER II. — The Shackspere Monument, Bust, and Portrait.
CHAPTER III. — The so-called "Signatures."
CHAPTER IV. — Contemporary Allusions to Shackspere.
CHAPTER V. — "The Return from Parnassus" and "Ratsei's Ghost."
CHAPTER VI. — Shackspere's Correspondence!
CHAPTER VII. — Bacon acknowledged to be a Poet.
CHAPTER VIII. — The Author revealed in the Sonnets.
CHAPTER IX. — Mr. Sidney Lee and the Stratford Bust.
CHAPTER X — Bacon is Shakespeare.
CHAPTER XI.— On the revealing page 136 in "Loves Labour's lost."
CHAPTER XII. — The "Householder of Stratford."
CHAPTER XIII.— Conclusion, with further evidences from title pages.
CHAPTER XIV. — Postscriptum.
CHAPTER XV. — APPENDIX.
ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.

PROMUS OF FOURMES AND ELEGANCYES BY FRANCIS BACON.

PREFACE TO PROMUS
FOOTNOTES.





VALERIUS TERMINUS: OF THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE

By Francis Bacon



CONTENTS

Preface by Robert Leslie Ellis
VALERIUS TERMINUS: OF THE INTERPRETATION OF NATURE
CHAPTER 1. OF THE LIMITS AND END OF KNOWLEDGE.
CHAPTER 4.
CHAPTER 7. THAT THE PRETENDED SUCCESSION OF WITS HATH BEEN EVIL PLACED, FOR ASMUCH AS AFTER VARIETY OF SECTS AND OPINIONS, THE MOST POPULAR AND NOT THE TRUEST PREVAILETH AND WEARETH OUT THE REST; BEING THE 7TH CHAPTER; A FRAGMENT.
CHAPTER 8. OF THE IMPEDIMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE IN HANDLING IT BY PARTS, AND IN SLIPPING OFF PARTICULAR SCIENCES FROM THE ROOT AND STOCK OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE, BEING THE 8TH CHAPTER, THE WHOLE CHAPTER.
CHAPTER 9. THAT THE END AND SCOPE OF KNOWLEDGE HATH BEEN GENERALLY MISTAKEN, AND THAT MEN WERE NEVER WELL ADVISED WHAT IT WAS THEY SOUGHT; BEING THE 9TH CHAPTER, WHEREOF A FRAGMENT (WHICH IS THE END OF THE SAME CHAPTER) IS BEFORE.
CHAPTER 10. THE INVENTORY, OR AN ENUMERATION AND VIEW OF INVENTIONS ALREADY DISCOVERED AND IN USE, TOGETHER WITH A NOTE OF THE WANTS AND THE NATURE OF THE SUPPLIES, BEING THE 10TH CHAPTER; AND THIS A SMALL FRAGMENT THEREOF, BEING THE PREFACE TO THE INV
CHAPTER 11. THE CHAPTER IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE INVENTORY; BEING THE 11TH IN ORDER; A PART THEREOF.
CHAPTER 12.
CHAPTER 13.
CHAPTER 14.
CHAPTER 15.
CHAPTER 16.
CHAPTER 17.
CHAPTER 18.
CHAPTER 19.
CHAPTER 21.
CHAPTER 22.
CHAPTER 25.
CHAPTER 26.
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