Excerpt from The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Vol. 13: The Letters and the Live, Vol. Vi Bacon's before him. Now nobody who can read finds any trouble in distinguishing small pica from long primer. If he wishes to see only what is Bacon's, he has only to refrain from reading anything which is not in small pica, and his trouble will consist in turning over the leaves. If that is too much, the capitals in the table of contents will show him at a glance all ...
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Excerpt from The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Vol. 13: The Letters and the Live, Vol. Vi Bacon's before him. Now nobody who can read finds any trouble in distinguishing small pica from long primer. If he wishes to see only what is Bacon's, he has only to refrain from reading anything which is not in small pica, and his trouble will consist in turning over the leaves. If that is too much, the capitals in the table of contents will show him at a glance all the pages which contain anything of Bacon's own, and he can go to them at once without so much as turning over the other leaves. More than this I cannot do for him with out manifest injustice to his weaker brethren, for whom, as being presumably in the same condition in which I was myself when I began, I have a fellow feeling. It is true that the work is constructed on the supposition that both the comment and the text will be read; nor do I regard any one who skips either the one or the other as having read the book or qualified himself to criticize it; but certainly nothing can be easier than to read all that is Bacon's without looking at anything that is mine, or all that is mine without looking at anything that is Bacon's. Another and a very different critic, who complains of the absence of the man, Francis Bacon, from the scene, will, I hope, profit by the same information. If he will take the trouble to read some of the larger type, he will find that the man, Francis Bacon, is the principal person in every scene throughout the work, and that the business of the smaller print is only to prepare the reader for his entrance. Wherever he sees small pica he may be sure that Bacon himself is there, in a much more authentic shape than either he or I could pre sent him In; that he is there in his own person, speaking in his own words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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