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Bacons Topics ambition and anger beauty and building of garden death and deformity love, truth, friendship,marriage parents and children studies youth and age riches religion health and honor * famous quotations (Beauty) is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt , and cannot last. (friendship) redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves. (marriage) Wives are young mens mistress; compaions for middle ages; and old man nurses. * Bacon Of Study What’s your definition of studies? What are they used for? What is your reading habit? What kind of reading habit do you think is the best? Do you believe “poets make men witty” as Bacon say? How and why? Cite examples to prove that different branches of studies really improve your character, and add more branches of studies to fully develop the idea. Give a presentation of its discussion, explaining the main ideas and the organization of the essay, and paraphrasing some important lines. * Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Reading has three functions.It delights you;it beautifies you; and it strengthens your ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness① and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. The delight of reading lies in your private life and retirement. The beautifying of reading lies in how you talk to others.The way reading strengthens your ablity lies in your act of judging, how you assess a person or situation or event and how you deal with it. privateness: private life,solitude, retreat discourse: conversation * For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. for: although, despite expert men: men of practical experience Although men with great experience could judge the affairs from each situation and accomplish them well,men who are learned always are the best one to have