Francis Bacon

Thereafter, she taught herself, studying philosophy, Latin, German, Italian, French, political economy, and theology. She was very well read and took a particular interest in the writings of Caroline Norton , Felicia Hemans

The title-page quotes Francis Bacon and Joseph Addison .

The title-page of the first quotes from Francis Bacon (Knowledge is Power) and from the mother of Sir William Jones (Read and you will know). It portrays the widow Mrs...

The title-page adapts a remark of Francis Bacon about the exchange of thoughts with friends. EL 's own subtitle stresses that her emphasis here will be on ideas, or statements of personal philosophy, rather than...

The book is dedicated To My Friend, with a quotation about friendship from Francis Bacon . It seems now to be very rare. The Bodleian Library has a copy, but the British Library

The title-page quotes from Sir Francis Bacon , Virgil , and Sir Roger L'Estrange . A preface (written in the third person as he) argues that physiognomy has something in it but deplores the...

Makin proposes a curriculum which blends tradition with innovation. In arguing that it is more important to know things, than to get words and that languages (the staple of current male education) are subservient to...

The full title is Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality, of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean.

It was dated 1851. Her biographer R. K. Webb claims that the bulk of the book is Atkinson 's, with promptings from Harriet Martineau , although it certainly also includes substantial letters from her.HM

She says she never solicited for a place, though she wrote to the Princess on the death of Queen Anne. Her post involved a week of constant waiting on the Princess followed by some...

EN began to dabble, around 1908, in the Baconian question (whether the plays of Shakespeare were actually written by Francis Bacon ).

A few years later she believed, as if she had entered into one of her own fantasies for children, that she had found out the Shakespeare cipher, which comes out as definitely as the result...

Though the story centres on Yalding on the river Medway, the honeymooners travel to a whole list of EN 's favourite places before finally settling at Crow's Nest Farm, a portrait of her hideaway...

FR denied that she knew Latin, yet she used Latin tags in her letters. As an adult she worked persistently at self-education. Her commonplace-book contains her reading notes on Plato , Aristotle , Pliny ,...

The preface also formulates the idea—which was to permeate MR 's writing for the young, and which is enforced here by quotations from Samuel Rogers (on the title-page) and Francis Bacon (in the text)—of the...