Essays (Of Envy), Francis Bacon
Jun 28, 2021•12 min•Season 1Ep. 601
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Episode description
There is a human trait most poisonous to a man's blood. Man seeks to avoid it because he knows that it lies like a curse upon him. Just what is the poisonous human failing? Who are most subject to it? Bacon tells you in one of his best essays. (Volume 3, Harvard Classics)
Francis Bacon enrolled at Cambridge University, June 27, 1576.
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