ADVERTISEMENT. T HE Editor has great reason to hope that the lovers of Learning will think themselves obliged to him, for publishing a new Edition of Lord BACON's Works, more methodical, more elegant, and every way more complete, than any preceding. The ENGLISH Pieces are thrown into five principal divifions, and printed in the following order. 1. Philofophical. 1. Philofophical. 2. Moral and Political. 3. Law. 4. Theology. 5. Letters. The LATIN Pieces are separated from the rest, and ranged in the order pointed out by the Author himself, presenting, at one view, the several parts of his admirable plan for the great Inftauration of the Sciences. But this juft Difpofition is not the only advantage, which the prefent edition claims over all the former for to the English Tracts is now first added, Bacon's Apology for the earl of Essex, in the perfon of that Lord; and to the Latin, the feveral following Tracts the Author's tranflation of his Hiftory of Henry the feventh; of his Essays civil and moral; of his New Atlantis; and of his Advertisement touching an Holy War. To the third Volume is also prefixed the Life of Lord Bacon, written in Latin, by his chaplain Dr. Raleigh. The whole having been corrected with all poffible care, is of fered to the Publick much cheaper, though in a much more valuable form, than any preceding Edition. |