Excerpt from Francis Bacon: An Account of His Life and Works For the purpose of a summary, the Advancement of Learning has been preferred to the amplified Latin Translation called the De Augmentis, mainly because the former admits of quotations from Bacon's own inimitable English. Besides, the Advancement will be always more popular than the Translation; and the De Augmentis, although much enlarged in detail, adds little in outline. But in the summary of the Ad vancement, attention has been called to most of the important differences of statement or argument between the English and the Latin Translations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.