《培根英文简介》ppt课件.ppt

Francis Bacon,1561-1626,,,the younger son of Sir Nicholas Bacon，the Lord Keeper of the Seal of Elisabeth I. born in London in 1561. sent to Cambridge University at 12 4.left Cambridge and went abroad, and was attached to the English ambassador in France for some two years and entered Gray’s Inn to study law,Early life,,5.At 23, entered the House of Commons as an M.P.Meantime, wrote papers on public affairs and addressed some of his writings 6.At 36, engaged in the courtship of Elizabeth Hatton 7.At 45, married Alice, a fourteen- year-old girl 8.In 1621,awarded with viscount; public career ended in disgrace because of twenty- three separate counts of corruption 9.On 9 April 1626, died of pneumonia（肺 炎）,Philosophy,Bacon's Utopia:,New Atlantis,Baconian method:Bacon concluded,,Works,,New Instrument,Essays,,“Knowledge is power”,,Pictures,Mottos by Bacon,Of Studies Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle;natural philosophy deep; moral grave' logical and rhetoric able to contend. 读史使人明智， 读诗使人灵慧，数学使人缜密，物理使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重， 逻辑学则使人善辩。

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt, and can not last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but yeat certainly again, if it light well, it makes virtue shine, and vices blush. 美者犹如夏日蔬果，易腐难存；要之，年少而美者常无形，年长而美者不免面有愧色但若是美落在人身上得当的话，则德行因美而益彰，恶性见美而愈愧Of Beauty,Comments on Bacon and his works,Imaginative powers of literary creation English materialist philosophy Bacon’s chief contribution,Thank you!,。