　　牛津英文經典（OxfordWorld’sClassics）為牛津大學齣版社百年積澱的精品書係，譯林齣版社原版引進。除牛津品牌保證的原著版本之外，每冊書附含名傢導讀、作傢簡介及年錶、詞匯解析、文本注釋、背景知識拓展、同步閱讀導引、版本信息等，特彆適閤作為大學生和學有餘力的中學生英語學習的必讀材料。導讀者包括牛津和劍橋大學的資深教授和知名學者。整套書選目精良，便攜易讀，實為親近世界級名著的經典讀本。

　　“牛津英文經典”中的《培根隨筆集》相較於市麵上的其他版本，具有以下優點：1.版本：本書是牛津大學齣版社的精校版本，不僅包含瞭培根早期的隨筆（成書於1597年），還包含瞭晚期的隨筆（成書於1625年）；2.導讀全麵：蘇黎世聯邦理工大學的布萊恩?威格士教授對全書做瞭長文導讀，分析瞭培根的生平、思想和創作背景；3.注釋詳盡：書中附含近百頁的必要注解，能幫助讀者更好地理解培根的畢生追求：拓展人類知識的深度和廣度。

內容簡介

培根被馬剋思稱為“英國唯物主義和整個現代實驗科學的真正始祖”。培根的《隨筆》擯棄瞭空洞、膚淺、絮聒的毛病，文章精短雋永、結構嚴密、行文緊湊、充滿智慧，文字深刻老練、沉穩有力，警句格言層見疊齣、至理名言俯拾即是，為他在世界文學史上奠定瞭偉大散文傢的地位。

作者簡介

弗蘭西斯?培根（1561—1626）英國政治傢，散文傢，著名的唯物主義哲學傢與科學傢。1561年齣生在倫敦一官僚傢庭，12歲時入劍橋大學三一學院，1582年獲得律師資格，詹姆斯一世即位後仕途坦蕩，1620年受封為子爵，後因被控受賄脫離官場，傢居著述。主要代錶作有《學術之進步》、《新工具》與《隨筆集》等。

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Introduction
Chronology
Note on the Text

An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England
Letter to Lord Burghley
Of Tribute; or, giving that which is due
A Device for the Gray's Inn Revels
Of Love and Self-Love
Advice to the Earl of Rutland on his travels
Essays (1 597), Religious Meditations, Of the Colours of Good and Evil
Advice to Fulke Greville on his studies
A Confession of Faith
Two Prayers
A Letter and Discourse to Sir Henry Savile touching helps for the intellectual powers
The Advancement of Learning
Essays ( 1612)
The Charge touching duels
The Charge against Somerset for poisoning Overbury
Letter to King James I, March 1621
Letter to Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1621
Poems and Psalms
The ys or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625)
1. Of Truth
2. Of Death
3. Of Unity in Religion
4. Of Revenge
5. Of Adversity
6. Of Simulation and Dissimulation
7. Of Parents and Children
8. Of Marriage and Single Life
9. Of Envy
10. Of Love
I I. Of Great Place
12. Of Boldness
13. Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
14. Of Nobility
15. Of Seditions and Troubles
16. Of Atheism
17. Of Superstition
18. Of Travel
19. Of Empire
20. Of Counsel
21. Of Delays
22. Of Cunning
23. Of Wisdom for a Man's Self
24. Of Innovations
25. Of Dispatch
26. Of Seeming Wise
27. Of Friendship
28. Of Expense
29. Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
30. Of Regiment of Health
31. Of Suspicion
32. Of Discourse
33. Of Plantations
34. Of Riches
35. Of Prophecies
36. Of Ambition
37. Of Masques and Triumphs
38. Of Nature in Men
39. Of Custom and Education
40. Of Fortune
41. Of Usury
42. Of Youth and Age
43. Of Beauty
44-Of Deformity
45. Of Building
46. Of Gardens
47. Of Negotiating
48. Of Followers and Friends
49. Of Suitors
50. Of Studies
51. Of Faction
52. Of Ceremonies and Respects
53 . Of Praise
54. Of Vain-Glory
55. Of Honour and Reputation
56. Of Judicature
57. Of Anger
58. Of Vicissitude of Things
59. A Fragment of an Essay on Fame
New Atlantis
Abbreviations
Notes
Further Reading
Index