NOTICE. This volume has been delayed for some weeks, from the expectation that the Engraver would be able to complete, from a beautiful Miniature by Hilliard, a Portrait of Lord Bacon when he was between seventeen and eighteen years of age : but as a month must yet elapse before the Engraver can venture to submit bis Work to public inspection, I have thought it right to publish this volume, with the assurance that this Portrait will appear in the next volume. In the course of the Work there will also be Portraits of Lord Bacon when he was twelve years of age-when he was Lord Chancellor—when he was sixty-five years of ageand an Engraving from his Monument in St Michael's Church. CONTENTS. PAGE The ExcellENCE OF LEARNING and the merit of disseminating Objections which divines make to learning, Objections which politicians make to learning Division OF LEARNING 1. History relating to the memory 2. Poetry relating to the imagination 3. Philosophy relating to reason • 100 . 101 119 124 HISTORY. Natural history considered as to the subject Natural history considered as to its use Civil history Ecclesiastical history . 101 . 103 • 106 · 116 POESY Division of poetry 119 . 120 . 124 • 128 · 128 Philosophy. Primitive or general philosophy Particular philosophy Natural religion Natural philosophy Speculative natural philosophy Physique Metaphysique Operative natural philosophy . 131 132 . 135 . 136 . 145 The knowledge of the scattered occasions TO THE KING THIS EDITION OF THE WORKS OF FRANCIS BACON, WHO SAYS, ' THERE BELONGETH TO KINGS FROM THEIR "SERVANTS BOTH TRIBUTE OF DUTY AND PRESENTS OF AFFECTION,'is, WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GRACIOUS PERMISSION, MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY HIS MAJESTY'S FAITHFUL SUBJECT AND OBLIGED SERVANT BASIL MONTAGU. |