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1、Francis Bacon1561-162612the younger son of Sir Nicholas Bacon，the Lord Keeper of the Seal of Elisabeth I. born in London in 1561.sent to Cambridge University at 12 4.left Cambridge and went abroad, and was attached to the English ambassador in France for some two years and entered Grays Inn to study

2、 lawEarly life35.At 23, entered the House of Commons as an M.P.Meantime, wrote papers on public affairs and addressed some of his writings6.At 36, engaged in the courtship of Elizabeth Hatton7.At 45, married Alice, a fourteen- year-old girl8.In 1621,awarded with viscount; public career ended in disg

3、race because of twenty- three separate counts of corruption 9.On 9 April 1626, died of pneumonia（肺 炎）4PhilosophyBacons Utopia:New AtlantisBaconian method:Bacon concluded5Works New Instrument Essays “Knowledge is power”6Pictures7Mottos by BaconOf StudiesHistories make men wise; poets witty; the mathe

4、matics subtle;natural philosophy deep; moral grave logical and rhetoric able to contend. 读史使人明智， 读诗使人灵慧，数学使人缜密，物理使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重， 逻辑学则使人善辩。8Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and can not last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yeat certainly again, if it light well, it makes virtue shine, and vices blush.美者犹如夏日蔬果，易腐难存；要之，年少而美者常无形，年长而美者不免面有愧色。但若是美落在人身上得当的话，则德行因美而益彰，恶性见美而愈愧。Of Beauty9Comments on Bacon and his works Imaginative powers of literary crea