英国文学选读 Francis Bacon弗朗西斯·培根.ppt

Francis Bacon弗朗西斯·培根
22 January 1561

9 April 1626
18-year old Francis Bacon
An English lawyer, statesman, essayist, historian,
philosopher(哲学家),
and champion of modern science(现代科学拥护者).
Bacon’s Life
Bacon’s Works
Bacon’s Essays(《论说文集》)
Quotes from Bacon’s Essays
contents
Bacon’s Life
1561 January 22, born in London, the younger son of Sir Nicolas Bacon.
1573 April, enters Trinity college, Cambridge where he studies all the sciences then taught.
1579 Resides at Gray's Inn. Father's death leaves him penniless so he begins a career in law.
1584 Takes a seat in parliament for Dorsetshire.
1591 Confidential advisor to the earl of Essex.
1593 Takes a seat in parliament for Middlesex.
1597 Publishes his Essays《论说文集》along with Colours of Good and Evil and the Meditationes Sacrae.
1601 February 8, Essex leads a plot to kidnap the queen in order to force her to dismiss his enemies from her court. The leaders were arrested and Bacon was instrument al in securing for the queen a guilty verdict at Essex’ trial.
1603 Queen Elizabeth dies, eeded by James I in whose service Bacon flourishes.
1607 Receives office of solicitor.
1613 Bacon es attorney general.(首席检察官)
1620 Publishes New Instrument . 《新工具》
1621 Created Viscount St. Albans.
1622 Presents to Prince Charles the History of Henry VII.
Publishes Historia Ventorum and Historia Vitae et Mortis. .
1623 Publishes De Augmentis Scientiarum.
1624 Publishes Apothegms.
1626 Catches cold and develops bronchitis, dying on April 9
Bacon’s Wife :Alice Barnham Bacon
Bacon’s works
Philosophical:
The Advancement of Learning 《学术的推进》1605
New Instrument 《新工具》1620
2. Literary:
Essays 《论说文集》
The New Atlantics (a utopian novel published in 1626) 《新大西岛》
3. Professional:
Maxim of the Law 《法律原理》
The Reading on the Statute of Uses《法令使用读本》
Bacon’s Essays
1.“Of Studies”论学习
(the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays)
2.“Of Wisdom”论智慧
3.“Of Death”论死亡
4.“Of Friendship”论友谊