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Of Love
Title: Of Love
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1186 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Of Love
Sir Francis Bacon was a famous English essayist, lawyer, philosopher and statesman who had a major influence on the philosophy of science. In his time Bacon wrote sixty different essays. He devoted himself to writing and scientific work. His experiences make him an expert on the topic of love.
Francis Bacon’s essay Of Love is an essay about love. The purpose of the essay is to explain love and the affects it has on …showed first 75 words of 1186 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1186 total…although nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it." His essay on heterosexual love is a critique of the "weak passion.” He is speaking of love between men when he says "a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love," and "If a man have not a friend, he may quit the stage." This comes from his essay "Of Friendship."
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