Excerpt from The British Prose Writers, Vol. 1
The illustrious author of these Essays is so generally known as a man and a writer, that any particular account of him on the present occasion would be superfluous. To dwell, in-deed, on the incidents of my Lord Bacon"s life would be an unpleasant and mortifying task: for ever must it be deplored by the lover of literature and his species, that the possessor of this extraordinary intellect should have been exposed to the dangers of a situation to which his firmness was unequal; and, withdrawn from the retirement of his study, where he was the first of men, should have been thrown into the tumult of business, where he discovered himself to be among the last. The superiority, it is true, of his talents rendered him every where eminent; and when we see him acting at court, in the senate, at the bar, or on the bench, we beheld an engine of mighty force, sufficient, as it would appear, to move the world: but when we entry our research into his bosom, we find nothing there but the ebullition and froth of some common or corrupt passions; and we are struck with the contrast between the littleness within, and the exhibition of energy without But peace be to the failings of this wonderful man! they who alone Were affected by them, his contemporaries and himself, have long since passed to their account; and existing no mote as the statesman or the judge, he survives to us only in his works, as the father of experimental physics, and a great luminary of science.
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