On the Art of Writing · Character
Bacon
Elizabethan philosopher and essayist cited for aphoristic style.
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First appearance: lecture vi on the capital difficulty of prose
Bacon shows up with force in Lecture XI: English Literature in Our Universities (II). The page is where that presence becomes real.
Quoted at the end: 'Regnum Scientiae ut regnum Coeli non nisi sub persona infantis intratur.'
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