...people), and narrations or relations (representing action). Of these forms, he prefers lives, noting that "if they be well written, propounding to themselves...a more true, native, and lively representation."- Bacon encouraged life writing, noting this genre's curious scarcity in an age when active empirical...

...the pomp of business than the true and inward resorts0 thereof. But Lives, if they be well writren, propounding to themselves a person to represent in...contain a more true, native, and lively representation. So again Narrations and Relations0 of actions, as the War of Peloponnesus, the Expedition of Cyrus...

...smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens ; it comes therefore to pass, that histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward...contain a more true, native, and lively representation. — LORD BACON. MANKIND in general are so little in the habit of looking steadily at their own meaning,...

...smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens, it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward...contain a more true, native, and lively representation. So again Narrations and Relations of actions, as the War of Peloponnesus, the Expedition of Cyrus Minor,...

...history be taught in the university; — not that of which Bacon hath said that ' it doth rather set forth the pomp of business, than the true and inward resorts thereof,' tyit that which really unfolds the causes, expounds the direction, and prophecies the results of human...