培根论说文集：Essays（英文）

    培根，作为人类思想史上的一个重要人物，作为一个伟大的思想家，他具有一种与众不同的历史地位。当人们对培根进行全面思考时，便会自然而然地提出这样的问题：培根一生，写过重要的哲学著和，但在他的哲学著作中，关注的并非那些为人们所公认的纯哲学问题。因此，也有一些人就此认为，培根难以望近代哲学史上一流的哲学家项背，还有人认为，培根尽管对科学研究有执著的追求，甚至可以说，他几乎把毕生的业力贡献给了科学研究事业，然而，他终究算不上真正意义上的科学家。再拿教育来说，培根一生从未当过教员，他也没有从事过任何真正的教育实践，然而，西方的一些教育家们却认为“他对教育思想所产生的影响比任何或全部教育家的影响更大”。培根没有专门的经济学著作，然而，令人不可思议的是，他的大名却常常出现在经济思想史一类的著作中。此外，培根没有专门的美学专著，但美学史家们屡屡在其史著中怀着由衷的敬仰之情予以歌颂和礼赞，如此等等。这种学术研究史上的种种奇特现象说明了什么？的确，无论是纵向地或者是横向地看培根，我们认为，在任何一个具有的学术领域，人们都很难说培根是第一流的人物，然而，就人类文明发展的整个历史长河而言，培根乃是当之无愧的第一流的思想家。

培根随笔全集(解析版)

中外名家经典随笔(培根卷)-论人生

培根论人生

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    《培根论说文集》共收论文58篇，涉及到人生世事的方方面面，几乎人们在日常生活中所遇到的，其中也都有所论及。它不是一部一气呵成的著作，而是一部经作者多年反复锤炼、推敲、修改而成的精工之作。

Of Truth
Of Death
Of Unity in Religion
Of Revenge
Of Adversity
Of Simulation & Dissimulation
Of Parents & Children
Of Marriage & Chiladren
Of Marriage & Single Life
Of Envy
Of Love
Of GreatPlace
Of Boldness
Of Goodness,& Goodness of Nature
Of Nobility
Of Nobility
Of Seditions & Troubles
Of Atheism
Of Superstition
Of Travel

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set: and surely virtue is best in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features: and that hath rather dignity of presence, than beauty of aspect. Neither is it almost seen, that very beautiful persons are otherwise of great virtue; as if nature were rather busy not to err, than in labour to produce excellency. And therefore, they prove accomplished, but not of great spirit; and study rather behaviour, than virtue; but this holds not
always; for Augustus Caesar, Titus Vespasianus, Philip le Belle of France, Edward the Fourth of England, Alcibiades of Athens, Ismael the Sophy of Persia, were all high and great spirits; and yet the most beautiful men of their times.In beauty, that of favour is more than that of colour, and that of decent and gracious motion, more than that of favour. That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express; no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty,
that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.A man cannot tell, whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler: whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions: the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent.Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them. Not but I think a painter may make a better face, than ever was; but he must do it, by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music) and not by rule. A man shall see faces, that if you examine them, part by part, you shall find never a good; and yet all together do well. If it be true, that the principal part of beauty is in decent motion, certainly it is no marvel though persons in years seem many times more amiable; pulchrorum autumnus pulcher: for no youth can be comely but by pardon, and considering the youth as to make up the comeliness. Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and cannot last: and, for the most part, it m ……