Quotes About Francis Bacon

[A Phoenix]

Francis Bacon Benefactor of the Kingdom

[Eric Roberts]

15 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

Francis Bacon Benefactor of the Kingdom

I tried to google Mattias Leius but all I could find were foreign language sites. Thank you A.P. for this rare find!

 

[A Phoenix]

Francis Bacon - Incomparable Wisdom and Heroical Virtue

[Eric Roberts]

6 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

Francis Bacon - Incomparable Wisdom and Heroical Virtue

Another rare find. Interesting to compare Salkfield's worthy yet wordy praise of Bacon with Bacon's more elegant and lucid style of courtly address.

[A Phoenix]

The Gratitude of William Rawley Towards Francis Bacon

[Allisnum2er]

Hi A Phoenix ! Once again, many thanks for bringing to the table  and turning our attention to all these incredible Dedications.

In regards to the last one by Rawley ( A Sermon of Meekenesse), one sentence catched my attention this morning.

"Those of this nature are fittest to survive THE FIRST BIRTH, because they conteine THE INCORRUPTIBLE SEED which diet not."

We know that Rawley was in the Secrets of Lord Francis Bacon.

What if THE FIRST BIRTH was a reference to the "First Birth" of Bacon, under the name of TUDOR, before his second Birth under the name of BACON ?

And could it be, in the same time, a hidden reference to Dyonisos/Bacchus/Bacco, the Twice-born God ?

I had to take a look to the original text.

https://books.google.fr/books?id=Ia5oAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7&hl=fr&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

Here is what I found ...

TUDOR - Prin. BACON

If it is a coincidence, "le hasard fait bien les choses" !

[A Phoenix]

Good Evening High Wizard of B'Hive,

There is no way that the TUDOR acrostic is a coincidence sitting as it does above the phrase 'the first Birth' (which also incorporates the initials of Francis Bacon) which facillitates the reading that Francis Bacon/Bacon when first born was a Tudor, son of Queen Elizabeth and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. What makes it all the more powerful and compelling is its simple elegance. Brilliant Maestro.♥️👍🙂 

[Light-of-Truth]

Towards the end of the first line, "For the"
In the middle of the second line, "Booke, I"

(BOOKE is 100 Kaye cipher with 26 letter codes)

Next line at the end, "Appetite of"

Then going down we see a broken word with a hyphen, "con-"

I, F BACON, the first Birth.

Edited October 1, 2022 by Light-of-Truth

[A Phoenix]

Francis Bacon - Greater than all Praise can Reach

Edited October 2, 2022 by A Phoenix

[Allisnum2er]

9 hours ago, Light-of-Truth said:

Towards the end of the first line, "For the"
In the middle of the second line, "Booke, I"

(BOOKE is 100 Kaye cipher with 26 letter codes)

Next line at the end, "Appetite of"

Then going down we see a broken word with a hyphen, "con-"

I, F BACON, the first Birth.

Great finding Rob !

Here it is, with a little twist.  🙂 

Notice that the I of "I can" is different than the oher "J".

It is clearly on purpose, but I did not find a good explanation yet.

[Allisnum2er]

Good morning A Phoenix,

 "I am really Sorry", I hoped to be able to post my last findings in "A Sermon of Meekenesse" before your next awesome Post.

Well, the purpose is missed 😞

 Here is, what I found last night.

The expression "will be free" is used only twice in the book , on pages 33 and 34 ...

And thank you , for this new  "Quote about Bacon" that I did not know.

What another beautiful and great homage !

 

[Allisnum2er]

11 hours ago, A Phoenix said:

Francis Bacon - Greater than all Praise can Reach

Hi A Phoenix,

I found a copy of Opuscula Varia Posthuma on the net .

https://books.google.fr/books?id=rc1lAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7&hl=fr&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q=Burrus&f=false

Indeed, Burrus' Dedication is on pages unnumbered. But if we count from the Title page his Dedication is on pages 33, 34 and 35. 🙂

And 33 + 34 + 35 = 102 

Moreover , if I am not mistaken, Francis Bacon's Signature (Fr.  St ALBAN) appears only once in the 216 (6x6x6) numbered pages, on page 174 !!!

FRANCIS BACON = 100 (Simple cipher) and WILLIAM = TUDOR = 74 (Simple cipher)

As if by chance, the next numbered page after the page 174 is the page ... 177 = WILLIAM SHAKE-SPEARE (Simple cipher) 

And the page 177 is the first page of the Latin version of  "The Character of Queen Elizabeth" 😉 

Edited October 2, 2022 by Allisnum2er

[A Phoenix]

Francis Bacon - Brimming Over with Virtue and Humanity

[A Phoenix]

Francis Bacon - the Great Essayist

[A Phoenix]

The Noble Spirit of Francis Bacon

[A Phoenix]

Francis Bacon - Greatest Philosopher since the Beginning of the World

[Eric Roberts]

 Can anyone confirm or refute the attribution to Sir Francis Bacon of the often quoted witticism: "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, a sense of humour to console him for what he is"? Countless websites claim it was coined by "Francis Bacon" without stating the literary source.    For example: https://sirbacon.org/links/baconquotes.html / https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/50964.Francis_Bacon?page=2 / https://wiseowlquotes.com/francis-bacon/.  Some sites even credit it to Lord Verulam's namesake, the 20th Century painter! Another candidate, so some claim, is the 4th Earl of Orford, Horace Walpole (1717-1797).  A variation of the saying ("Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.") is often imputed to Oscar Wilde, but again without reference to any source. Wilde, rather than Bacon, seems to me to be the most likely author. If this is so, what a perfect example of how mistakes and false assumptions creep into culture, perpetuate themselves and become widely held beliefs...

 

 

 

Edited October 6, 2022 by Eric Roberts

[A Phoenix]

Francis Bacon and the Common Benefit of Mankind

[Allisnum2er]

17 hours ago, Eric Roberts said:

Can anyone confirm or refute the attribution to Sir Francis Bacon of the often quoted witticism: "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, a sense of humour to console him for what he is"? Countless websites claim it was coined by "Francis Bacon" without stating the literary source.

Hi Eric, it seems that the first appearence of this quote on the famous search engine is 07-23-1998 (Google was founded in 1998) in the following website  http://theliterarylink.com/quotes.html .

The website do not state the literary source, but for what it is worth, this is Francis Bacon who is mentionned at that time.

[Light-of-Truth]

I think I found the quote in a quick Baconian-special internet search in an old Google book from the 1800's that also did not give a reference.

Obviously to me is that the quote is Latin translated. We need to seek the Latin version in Bacon's works.

I hope it is Bacon's as I love it! Funny as humor can be!

 

 

[A Phoenix]

Francis Bacon - The Liberator of Philosophy

[Eric Roberts]

1 hour ago, A Phoenix said:

Francis Bacon - The Liberator of Philosophy

Yet another choice but unfamiliar quote from the Great One. Is it by Evelyn, Blackbourne or both? I wonder who the "someone who knew him well" was? As an aside: "Conquests in the territories of nature", it could be argued, led to the Industrial Revolution when, according to Dr Iain McGilchrist in "The Master and His Emissary - The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World", we began as a species to lose our more intuitive faculties (right hemisphere) as knowledge of how Nature works increased, thanks to the new science of rational materialism (left hemisphere). Did Sir Francis ever anticipate / foresee a possibility that his great gift to future generations - the Advancement of Learning - might be susceptible to corruption and misuse by lesser, more acquisitive souls than his own? I'm not saying we should blame Bacon for the present environmental crisis. Only that perhaps he had too much faith and love for Humanity. Thoughts anyone?

 

 

 

Edited October 8, 2022 by Eric Roberts

[A Phoenix]

Hi Eric, the quote is from Evelyn which Blackbourne reproduced in his 1730 edtion of The Works of Francis Bacon.

[A Phoenix]

Hi Eric, it may well have been FB's private secretary, editor and biographer Dr William Rawley (c. 1588-1667) who provided John Evelyn (1620-1706) with the above information about the Great One. 

[Eric Roberts]

1 hour ago, Eric Roberts said:

Yet another choice but unfamiliar quote from the Great One. Is it by Evelyn, Blackbourne or both? I wonder who the "someone who knew him well" was? As an aside: "Conquests in the territories of nature", it could be argued, led to the Industrial Revolution when, according to Dr Iain McGilchrist in "The Master and His Emissary - The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World", we began as a species to lose our more intuitive faculties (right hemisphere) as knowledge of how Nature works increased, thanks to the new science of rational materialism (left hemisphere). Did Sir Francis ever anticipate / foresee a possibility that his great gift to future generations - the Advancement of Learning - might be susceptible to corruption and misuse by lesser, more acquisitive souls than his own? I'm not saying we should blame Bacon for the present environmental crisis. Only that perhaps he had too much faith and love for Humanity. Thoughts anyone?

 

 

 

Verse from Ch. 1, The Chemical Wedding"

If the poor human race
Were not so arrogant
It would have been given much good
From my mother’s heritage,
But because the human race will not take heed                                                                                                                                                                It lies in such straits
And must be held in prison.
And yet my dearest mother
Will not regard their mischief,
She leaves her lovely gifts
That many a man might come to the light,                                                                                                                                                                                                    Though this may chance but seldom                                                                                                                                                                             That they be better prized                                                                                                                                                                                               Nor reckoned as mere fable.

Edited October 8, 2022 by Eric Roberts