The Oxford Francis Bacon XV: The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall.Bacon, Francis. The Oxford Francis Bacon XV: The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. Ed. Michael Kiernan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. cxviii + 339 pp. append To add to the end of an existing structure. , index. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0-19-818673-8. Kiernan uses the 1625 edition as the copytext for this critical, unmodernized edition, which includes a collation COLLATION, descents. A term used in the laws of Louisiana. Collation -of goods is the supposed or real return to the mass of the succession, which an heir makes of the property he received in advance of his share or otherwise, in order that such property may be divided, together with the at the foot of the text of the extant manuscripts and thirteen editions (1597-1625) published during Bacon's lifetime. Introductory sections discuss the Essayes as "counsels," the evolution, form, and style of the Essayes, and Bacon's role as an innovator and exponent of the English essay. A textual introduction is also provided, as is a comparative table of the Essayes, a commentary on them, and an appendix of Bacon's dedicatory Epistles EPISTLES, civil law. The name given to a species of rescript. Epistles were the answers given by the prince, when magistrates submitted to him a question of law. Vicle Rescripts. . Two indices and a glossary. |
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